Shortcut Fails In Bali | Hipsters continue to ruin paradise
Bali is paradise, but every year it seems to get more run-down with hipsters, Instagram stars, more expensive, more polluted, more dangerous, and of course way more congested when it comes to traffic (and surf line-ups). This may sound like we’re bagging on it, but we’d hop on a flight tomorrow if one came our way.
Anyway, Nathan Myers wrote up a hilarious story for Bali Belly about short cut fails that sums up Bali on so many levels.
Sample:
What was NOT acceptable, however, is to drive the Shortcut when someone else was already driving it in the opposite direction. The road was just too narrow. Too feeble. And it’s meant to be one way…though no one quite remembers which one.
As the years go by, the tiny village on the far side of the Shortcut has grown into quite the hip, hopping, hipster hotspot. Each day, parades of flopsy-hatted, bearded cross-fit yogis hire day-rate drivers to deliver them across the paddies for a quick moustache waxing and some vinyl shopping before a two-for-one happy hour with their sunset selfie. And along the way, they stop upon The Shortcut for a Snapchat update or to spray paint a quick mural. “Save Our Mother Ocean,” they spray. “Choose Life” and “Eat Pussy, Not Animals.” Their lack of irony is not ironic at all.
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