In our blog post “The Illusions Burn – Hollywood in Flames,” we paved the way for understanding the decline of the USA and its satellite states.
Below we outline some secular and spiritual aspects related to the decline expressed through the symbolism of Las Vegas.
Las Vegas – Hollywood – Two sides of the same coin
Hollywood is the global center for the production and sale of media illusions. Ideological fantasies, dream worlds, and irrational on-screen romances represent one side of media manipulation, while the more subtle side lies in the brutal, bloodthirsty, and deeply disturbing horror, war, and other cinematic and television productions that glorify murder. These genres are skillfully woven into the concept of ideologically driven power consolidation by the hegemon and its allies.
Las Vegas, built on desert sand, is currently collapsing economically, representing the ongoing US hegemonic ambitions and the associated pressure on other states exerted by a shaky, excessive US egocentrism.
Within this context lies the illusion held by the masses that they can generate wealth at Las Vegas’s gaming tables and slot machines with just a few coins, bills, and a bit of „just for fun.“
Looking at Las Vegas globally, the city reveals itself, to the benefit of a few, as the synonym for a system-typical, mafia-like money generation and accumulation system to the detriment of the masses.
Las Vegas was Native American land and hunting grounds in 1830, then stolen land, and later a spiritually corrupted land.
In 1862, 10,000 Navajo were forcibly relocated to the Fort Sumner Reservation. After the Native Americans were relocated, driven out, or killed, the occupiers, fortune hunters, and opportunists, including the Catholic Church, began to divide the land among themselves.
Las Vegas‘ Rise to Modernity
Las Vegas was officially founded in 1883 and received a license from the state of Nevada in 1931 to offer gambling in casinos.
The timing was perfect, because not far from Las Vegas, near Boulder City, the construction of the Hoover Dam, which required a large workforce, began in 1931 and continued until 1936.
Many of the dam’s construction workers could enjoy themselves after their hard work pushing stones and concrete in Las Vegas, 30 miles away, in the gambling dens, casinos, brothels, or beer bars, paying for their time.
With the increasing number of tempted, willing, thirsty, and hungry gamblers, the first criminal syndicates arrived in Las Vegas in the early 1940s. In a sense, figures like Benjamin „Bugsy“ Siegel and Meyer Lansky shaped the burgeoning Las Vegas.
According to historical accounts, the Mafia withdrew from the city in the 1960s. This is said to have prompted the notorious Howard Hughes to buy hotels and casinos from the mobsters.
Despite the Mafia’s departure from the city, its influence, extending into the police, judiciary, and administration, remained. This allowed Gabriel Ben Harosh (drug dealer, extortionist, pimp) and his deputy Hai Waknine, as well as the notoriously brutal Itzhak Abergil, to gain a foothold in the city.
The Synonym Las Vegas
Las Vegas, founded on sand, reflects humanity’s illusion of being able to build and expand something lasting on sand, made all the more difficult when that sand is stolen land, spiritually and eternally connected to the indigenous people (Native Americans).
Las Vegas represents the illusion of being able to buy happiness, but also the loss that defines a rule: the casino and the monetary system always win.
Like Hollywood, Las Vegas represents the illusion of the rags-to-riches story, the rags-to-riches tale, the saga of the down-and-out, the bon vivant, the table dancer to the celebrated Hollywood actress.
In the light of day, outside the LED and neon lights of the night, Las Vegas reflects both the everyday hustle and bustle of ordinary people and the losers at the gaming tables and slot machines.
Las Vegas blossoms at night, enchanting and helping demonic shadows to assume a beautiful face that, embedded in the human soul, incites irrational, sometimes dehumanizing actions.
In the ceaseless hum and beep of countless slot machines, the constantly shifting roulette and poker tables, a peculiar atmosphere arises, one that focuses thoughts, creates both positive and negative emotions that determine the city’s pulse.
When the discerning mind reflects on the symbolism of the night, it inevitably encounters its shadowy beings: Hecate, Artemis, Apollo-Moloch, Kronos-Saturn, the demonic power of Urizen, or that of the Hebrew Jehovah, of whom Moses (cf. Exodus 20:21) says: „And Moses approached the thick darkness where God (Jehovah) was.“
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