Burning Man festival-goers trapped in desert as rain turns site to mud
theguardian.com
You have to laugh … I remember Glastonbury, up to my knees in mud - it’s all part of the fun. Having said that, it’s unlikely turn into a survival situation in a field in Somerset, so not really that comparable …
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Rich people travel 1000+ kilometres to gather around and pretend to be not rich and just like common folks! This is my understanding as someone who isn't american.
Also drugs. Lots of drugs.
Also sex. dusty, dusty sex
My mother in law took us a few times and the most we did was pot. Also I was unemployed both times as I was laid off and got a cheap ticket. The original burners still go and they're definitely not rich.
Burning Man was an amazing event when I stumbled across it on the internet in the late 90's. I must have been 14 or 15, it used to be a real "go experience, experiment and find yourself" setting. It's since gone the way of SXSW. It totally goes against what it was intended for.
That's what it is today. Use to be more underground and subversive, even if it took money to be involved.
Id say for the past ten years, it's been a rich person's fantasy of poor hippy lifestyle
It's trying to recreate the glorified vision of Woodstock but with more drugs and more money
Except, it's not really about a lifestyle because nobody's lifestyle involves living permanently or even semi-permanently in a dry lake bed. A hippy lifestyle might be living on a self-sufficient communally managed farm, or something. But, strip it down to its core and burning man still involves people traveling in from elsewhere, depending on limited supplies they brought in from elsewhere to spend a week in a place they couldn't possibly live.
So, maybe it's a temporary art exhibit in the middle of nowhere so people can feel more free to express ideas and perform activities that they can't in their boring 9-5 lifestyles. Which is fine, I guess... but it only makes it seem even more like cosplay. If you really want to live that way, then be that person the rest of the year. Don't be yourself for a week and then hide your true self the other 51 weeks of the year.
Burning Man is a festival celebrating creative expression. No one there is pretending to not be rich
Yeah a lot of them stopped pretending.
Lol this thread is so weird. I have several friends who attend. Exactly zero of them could be considered "rich." Artsy hippie types, sure, but lmao not rich.
Lots of know-it-alls commenting on something they've never been to and know nothing about. Just hop on the bandwagon for internet clout.
They read an article about some tech guy enjoying burning Man, once. Just kinda the way the site works
idk people here think being rich means you need to own a yatch...
Nah people here think being part of the lower-middle class makes you rich.