“Home” Dave Hickey considers Las Vegas this because he feels he can live his life the way he chooses with “a source of comforts and reassurances that are unavailable elsewhere”. I have not been to Vegas but imagine it to be a place of bright lights and showbiz that anyone that has a bit of money and a thirst for the bright lights can enjoy. Cast, colour or creed bare no importance, its there for all to enjoy. So Hickey is saying only there he can get away from the ignorance of the rest of America, even the world, and live an open life. He believes that in Vegas those that wouldn't do well in other parts of America can live a good life and have the 2.5 children. Possibly in American “the land of opportunity”, Hickey has found Vegas to be the only part where this is true.”A town where outsiders can still get works... a town that can settle as the heart destination”. He empahsises this point by talking about a waitress that was transferred out of some hick town to Vegas and was very happy, as she felt she now had a chance to move “up to cocktails, where the tips were better”. Vegas had opened a new door for her as it had done for many other people across America.
I welcome the statement “Vegas presents a flat line hierarchy”. “Membership in the university club will not get you comped at Caesars”. I have always found social hierarchy to be bullshit. It is kept alive by the grouping of people that believe they have status. This status is just sugar coated ignorance that they have built collectively. Though when out out of this comfort zone they feel threatened as their tweed jackets have no importance in the newly shaping modern world. Vegas possibly being advanced in this way does threaten them as their ignorant minds cannot accept that they are not an elite anymore. This is comparable to the modern architecture student and the old architect. The modern day architecture student has grown up in the open world of computers, T.V. and internet, whilst the old architect has grown up in the world of drawing boards and calligraphy. Although the latter is still important the modern day student can do both and more whilst the old architect chooses to ignore anything new.
In the next 10 – 20 years some people will struggle for work as they find themselves under skilled and overpaid. The world is changing massively, as it is I'm writing a 4000 word essay as a blog for the internet. Culture is changing, and whilst some people would not agree with it or hide I welcome it. There is an opening in this new world that is there for the taking, you just have to make the effort to take it.
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