FYRE: The Greatest Party that Never Happened

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Two thoughts on FYRE: The Greatest Party that Never Happened
1. We all have a friend like Billy McFarland: charming, ambitious, and always cooking up some grand get-rich-quick scheme, but once you see through them, you will realize that they are actually just lazy and incompetent.

Let this Netflix documentary remind us that wild, revolutionary, epic, and obscure ideas will not make you a success. Discipline, conscientiousness, attention to detail, hard work, integrity, and patience will.

2. FYRE: The Greatest Party that Never Happened also shows us how vain and shallow society has become. The organizers of Fyre Festival made people believe that they can party with the cool kids, the influencers, and beautiful models like Bella Hadid and Kendall Jenner, thanks to an unrealistically gorgeous video of a beach party and a few vague social media posts. The attendees relied on the endorsement of a few models, thinking about how attending Fyre Festival would make their Instagram feed the envy of their friends.

Imagine their shock when they arrived in the Bahamas only to find out that not only was the festival cancelled, but there was also no food, lodging, water, and transportation back to Miami. They paid thousands of dollars for something that did not exist.
Fyre Festival is everything wrong about social media.

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