The history of the United States is synonymous with the dream of riches, but the question as to whether money is mortal or immortal has never been resolved.
For many in Western history, games of chance represented a portal of possibility, not a heresy to be demonized or a statistical probability to be managed.
Human art, fiction, invention, and technology are not unnatural forces that have suddenly erupted into nature, but rather the natural continuation of nature’s own evolutionary processes.