Totally agreed. The biggest example of "love" I read in the piece was... people jointly throwing plastic bottles in the air (most of which they presumably just left on the ground)? That's the epitome of human kindness?
Unlike the original Woodstock, this doesn't sound like a group that came together out of any shared values other than to have as much fun as they could, whatever the cost. Oh, and of course to brag that they were there. Not exactly inspiring, and I'm dismayed it's at the top of HN.
For some reason "throwing water bottles in the air" seemed to be the thing to do in concerts in the late 90's - 2000. I remember it happening in just about every venue I was at (wasn't at Woodstock '99). Maybe it was the nexus of bottled water being ubiquitous for the first time but before the backlash about waste and switching to reusable bottles.
>Not exactly inspiring, and I'm dismayed it's at the top of HN.
The kind of people that did these things in 1999 are now pushing 40 and have jobs as PMs, 1.2 kids and a house in a good school district. Why wouldn't this sort of nostalgia be top page of a white collar website on a slow Friday?
Unlike the original Woodstock, this doesn't sound like a group that came together out of any shared values other than to have as much fun as they could, whatever the cost. Oh, and of course to brag that they were there. Not exactly inspiring, and I'm dismayed it's at the top of HN.