I found it interesting the way Dave Hickey talks about Las Vegas. It’s a place that most people conceder it to be a pit of sin, but to him, it’s a place where there are no standards. “Membership in the university club will not get you comped at Caesars, unless you play baccarat. Thus, in the absence of vertical options, one is pretty much thrown back onto ones own cultural resources, and, for me, this has not been the worst place to be thrown.”

I agree with Hickey about Las Vegas, and I agree that it is a place where people can general be them self’s with out worrying about prosecution from others. But it also seems like a place where making true human connection might be difficult. I have to wonder if it is worth it to live in a place where no one will judge you, but have no real community around you.

~amber shannon