Who do they think they're fooling?

I receive Flavorpill, a weekly newsletter featuring cultural and nightlife events for New York City. (I also get Urban Junkie, optimistically hoping that I'll be able to visit London and take advantage of some of their listings. It's been, like, seven years since I've been there, so whatevs!) I love living in NYC, but having spent the first quarter century of my life in the San Francisco Bay area, I know that there are other, wonderful places in the world. That's why when I read things like this, it just pisses me off:

It's easy to make fun of Burning Man: 50,000 costumed/naked hippies converging in the desert for a massive, drugged-out Kumbaya doesn't exactly jive with New York's cutthroat individualism.

Does this writer have eyes? Has she never been to Williamsburg and seen the hipsters who wear "individuality" as a uniform? Has she never seen the herds of CarrieSamrandalottes moving through Soho or the Meat Packing District? Anybody working around the Financial District or Midtown? I see a lot more people doing whatever they can to look like they belong to a group than those acting independently. Actually, the best quote I ever heard about New York was that there are seven million people in New York. So even if you're one in a million, there are seven others out there just like you.