admittedly my understanding of las vegas may be a bit distorted by only seeing it in movies and also when people complain about it online, but it seems that it's some kind of city-sized torture device where the spectre of advertising is ritualistically summoned into an orb in the middle of a very hot desert and then it attacks everyone living there all of the time while they gamble to keep their mind off it
doesn't seem like a real place is all. seems a little heavy handed.
just clicked around on google street view for a minute and had to close it because I saw a parking lot so large it started to bend over the horizon and touched both sides of the panorama
Sun belt urban design is a unique hell on earth and Las Vegas may be the most horrifying example of that kind of settlement.
