Las Vegas has everything. What it doesn’t yet have, it’s quite capable of inventing, being a city with a great spirit of innovation. The people who began making Las Vegas what it is today were both far-sighted in vision, and enormously skilled at taking advantage of the moment.
One example of great innovation in town is the resort that is a kind of miniature version of Cancun. It’s one of the most compelling arguments that Las Vegas has indeed become the ultimate post-modern city. Here, everything is up for negotiation, and everything is a quotation of something else, and the experience is usually nothing less than otherworldly.
In the true sense of the spirit of quotations, it is difficult to find a real center in La Vegas, because, as the Stein saying goes, there’s no there there . Las Vegas hotels rarely look like hotels in any other town in the country, because they are made up of the best parts of everywhere. Visitors can come to get away from it all, and find themselves in reproductions of other places, so there is a constant sense of being outside of oneself, in another unnamed location, where the otherness is somehow welcoming. It can even begin to feel nostalgic, and the nostalgia might be for another place, or another version of Las Vegas, or another home entirely elsewhere.
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