If Vegas isn’t ticking somebody off…
…then most likely we’re doing something wrong.
Vegas is, in a lot of ways, a fetid compost heap of humanity. It’s all the worst things in the world piled into a single spot and allowed to ferment.
But, that said, it’s also home. To almost two million folks. And the vast majority of them have nothing whatsoever to do with all the reeking garbage. Vegas is simply a distorted reflection of America. You can recognize America in it, sure, but it blows up the worst parts. It takes MTV and makes it into a red swollen blister on the upper lip of the face of culture.
And again, that said, it’s also home. And this city can be something greater than itself.
November 12th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
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