We all live in Las Vegas now”

Sun, Dec 21, 2008 (7:52 p.m.)

There is something especially unsettling about visiting Las Vegas these days -- and it is not the town’s lascivious culture. A voyage to Sin City in this moment of ecological and economic crisis is a journey to a giant concave mirror reflecting back the magnified -- and ugly -- truths about this epoch of cataclysmic consumption and hubristic hedonism.

Read the rest of this essay at Salon.com.

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