I have no dog in this fight, but really? Guardian writers are devolving to such poor wordsmith-ing where the hyperbole and contradictions are instantly obvious. e.g.
"...the fact that 70,000 tech types were stranded in a desert."
All 70,000 are tech types?!
Then she lets the reader know she's aware there might be some diversity at the event.
"....let me acknowledge that not everyone [of those tech types] who goes to the festival is obscenely wealthy and generally awful."
But a lot of those people she has never met she labels as "generally awful."
I'd excuse this weak writing if the intention was comedy, but it smacks more of high-school clique-ism. Intellectual private school kids laughing at city school Goths.
It's sad that the only thing giving us real information these days is road signs.