Haha this is so close to how I felt about my last time on the playa, and how I’ve always suspected it would be if I went back. I was already seeing, in my last year or two out there, that the little moments of magic and random connection seemed fewer and farther between. People seemed more inclined to observe than to…

Yep, this. I haven’t been back since 2010 but have a lot of friends who go every year, and I think your comment is spot on. While I’d wager that the asshole quotient has grown significantly in recent years (though there have *always* been some assholes out there), it sounds from what my friends tell me like they’re…

It’s not like theater shootings are happening around the clock. I mean, if you don’t take your kids to a movie theater because there might be a shooting, shouldn’t you never take them on a road trip because highway accidents happen? Never let them ride a bike because they might get hit by a car or fall and break a…

I dunno, I know people who still go, and have been going for years, and you can avoid the corporate BS pretty easily from what they tell me. There are 60k people there, only a handful are rich assholes.

Yeah— it basically means we can’t summarily throw him in jail on the basis of 50+ accusations. He is entitled to a trial. He is not entitled to the benefit of the doubt from ANYONE else.