I've always enjoyed myself in Las Vegas. Yes, it is less a city than a giant machine to separate people from their money, around which a city has been built, and it is crass, sometimes even hideous, but people go there to have a good time, and I believe it is a good thing when people go somewhere and have a good time. I've gone to Las Vegas for many reasons, including for concerts, and when I've gone to Las Vegas for a concert, I've always had a really good time.
I wonder, then, if an attack like this is not just an attack on the people at the event nor on people as a collective, but on the very idea of the goodness of the experience itself, that it is good and pleasurable to go somewhere with thousands of other people for the express purpose of experiencing joy together. If the goal is to make us cringe at the offer of connection and choose instead fear and pain. If the demon that possessed the body that fired all those bullets sought not only to kill people, but also to destroy all that is good and joyful, and in so doing sought to drive us into the demon's own madness, and thus perpetuate itself in the world.