“We are pleased to have fulfilled demand for our earlier sales and be in a position to offer greater access to more people as the event nears,” Marian Goodell, CEO of Burning Man, said in a press release.
CEO of Burning Man
Lmfao.
i don’t see how anyone can look at the Burning Man Board of Directors and think that it is anything except another fucking corporate shakedown.
i mean, literally 10 years ago the criticisms of how elitist and infiltrated it was were so widespread that even i had heard them.
literally 10 years ago the criticisms of how elitist and infiltrated it was
10 years? Shit, those criticisms have around since about 2005, if not earlier.
There was a social media site called Tribe.net that was filled with mostly Burners since Tribe was hq’d in San Francisco. I remember looking in the Burning Man tribe of the site and seeing complaints of how “sold out” the event had become because techbros, going to the desert to drop acid and look at topless hippie chicks, had taken over their art event, and thus the organizers begun charging cash money, ridiculous prices for what used to be a free-ish event.
I sincerely cannot understand why anyone would find the idea of spending a week in the scorching desert sun listening to the Grateful Dead’s grandchildren playing their music before sleeping in a tent with just enough water to not die of dehydration fun.
I can, however, imagine a person who would find that fun, and now I can’t imagine how that person would pay $1500/person to go to that.
For the burners I know it’s a profound experience of community, connection, love, and wonder. They’re genuinely kind, sorta dumb hippies who really do pour their heart and soul in to the art they bring out to Black Rock. They get to see all their friends, take off all the masks society forces them to wear, be wild and free from the day to day drudgery of a society that hates them for being weird. They move heaven and earth, bum rides, beg borrow and steal to get out there.
It’s incredibly sad. To them Burning Man is a kind of glimpse of paradise and most of them don’t seem to recognize that they’re the trained monkeys performing for the real audience of rich tech bros who inflict the very misery and poverty they’re seeking to escape from. Or maybe they do know and don’t care, seizing an opportunity for genuine community and belonging in spite of the crass larger picture of “the burn”.
I think the appeal is there’s usually a ton of free drugs there. And casual sex if you’re hot enough.
Also, interesting art, novelty-aplenty, and the ability to say you did it.
I don’t think there are too many people hot enough to make the casual sex itself hot considering it’ll be sweaty, dehydrated, hot, dusty, smelly desert drug festival sex in a tent. Burning Man sounds fucking awful.
I’d rather just meet someone in my area after we shower.
From videos I’ve seen of it, there does seem to be a pretty high concentration of very conventionally attractive people wearing rather skimpy outfits. I think the event attracts a lot of California who work in fields that attract a lot of good looking people (media mostly). Also from what I understand previous events were better organized and generally did had adequate water and other resources to keep people from dying if dehydration, it’s just the event last year was a cluster fuck due to unexpected weather.
None of this is to defend Burning Man, it’s an extremely bougie event for rich hippies, but if you were a cringe ass rich hippy yourself it probably is a lot of fun.
Why would anyone pay to get Ebola?
a few more years of this (scaring off the techbros) and burning man might be kinda cool again
