What we can learn from the disaster that was the Fyre festival
Everyone I know has been talking about the Fyre festival documentary on Netflix, and by everybody I mean the narrow cross section of people on my Facebook timeline. The film tells the story of the festival that was supposed to take place in the Bahamas in 2017, and ended in disaster. Before watching it, the two things I knew about the festival were that it involved Ja Rule, best known for shouting next to J-Lo; and the viral tweet of the lunch provided, a polystyrene box with some bread and cheese in it. (I can relate to this. I was recently in Colombia and given a “vegan wrap”, or three slices of tomato and a lettuce leaf. I was informed that the lettuce did the work of the wrap. I’m not sure that giving the ingredients job titles changes the meal.)
I remember, when I saw that tweet, thinking how funny it was that a bunch of privileged hipsters and social-media influencers were having a dreadful time at a festival organised by demigod-level dickheads. Watching the details of how it fell apart, and how chaotic and horrendous it must have been for all those people attending, made it much, much funnier.
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