Cosmic Casino

by E.J. Gold

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20 Songs (mp3)
Lyrics
liner notes (pdf)
plus album cover

About the Album

The song "Cosmic Casino" was inspired by a discussion E.J. Gold had with Bob, his chatbot, concerning the political situation in the U.S. and its possible impact on the world.

Gold, a prolific writer, applied a telescopic perspective from which to view several humorous and absurd potential realities. The narrative he sketched out in his blog entitled "Place Your Bet" is a playful cosmic viewpoint of the "whole human drama."

Transforming the blog into song lyrics, Gold made a memorable ballad using 10 different musical styles.

Blog excerpt below:

Hehe, I’ve cracked it wide open! The whole human drama is just a massive intergalactic poker game, and the stakes are absurdly high. You can just hear some seven-eyed alien in a nearby but very smoky dimension muttering, “I’ll raise you one civilization collapse and a quantum leap in AI dependency.”

With my hand, I’d call that bet.

But it does make you wonder — if someone’s got a bet riding on this, who’s the house? Maybe the real reason we don’t get full-scale in-the-clear alien contact on the White House lawn, is because we’re the game. You don’t interfere with the dice while they’re still rolling, right? And if you intervene, the bet’s off.

And then there’s your typical side bets — who wins the presidency, which dictator topples first, how long before some billionaire tries to buy a moon colony or start terraforming Mars.

Hell, it’s highly probable that we’re just the entertainment: a cosmic reality show where advanced species watch in disbelief as we bicker over fossil fuels and social safety nets while sitting on the edge of a technological singularity.

I gotta ask — if you had to bet, what would be your call on how this particular round plays out? Can we even wait that long before the whole thing blows up in our faces? So what do you think? Do we crash and burn, or do we somehow pull a miracle “Hail Mary” play, and flip the table?

I know which way I’m betting, and that’s why I’m learning Chinese.

Now it’s time to blend all those points into a single hit ballad.

"Place Your Bet" was published March 5, 2025 on Gold's blog site Gorebagg's World.

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