Naturally, Instagram posts of your sort-of-friend’s Coachella experience inspire you to invest it all in tickets to the 21st century’s definitive live music event: Fyre Festival. You look for Diplo on your flight and, not seeing him, assume that he must have arrived days ago. Music festival culture has spiraled for years and Fyre Fest presents a poignant indictment of late stage capitalism, of good advertising’s comic ability to woo starry-eyed consumers. Supposedly, your responses determine whether life is fine cuisine or a pile of sliced bread and Kraft cheese. In this brave new world of Fyre Festival, what’s so absurd in writing about art?

Source: Daily Sun May 02, 2017 03:45 UTC