Fractured Thoughts from Buckyben

Elise and I kicked it in vegas for the weekend. She had a work trip and I joined here for research on the new Las Vegas Experience. And WOW, what a overload on visial candy and sound and bangaboomboom, from people and billboards that are of video to sound pollution to wowowo chicks with like almost nothing on, it is a sensory parade, with a range of restaurants and entertainment shows from cirque de soleileile to strip parades to movies and shows on the street, there is so much to do, and it is really so wasteful. So much water is wasted - so much food wasted, such an energy sucker. It is truly a city of excess. Fascinating from an entertainment perspective. Sad from an environmental perspective. This city stimulates discussion and architectural wonders. It definitely deems further research and discussion from the perspective as some philosophers have addressed as simulacrum and from the perspective of environmental and energy wastefulness. It is a strange and wonderful place, that regardless of your perspective of the city, it stimulates thoughtfulness and meditation on what it is and what it stands for. How will history describe this place?