I doubt it’ll get very far with this crowd, but my good friend from uni has been trying to drag me there for 15 fecking years. Every video and story I see feels super cringe. Am I missing anything?
Hopefully not like used dope syringes and shit? I use iv opiates and would never leave that shit for someone else to pick up
I’ve got to ask, can you talk more about your experience with this? Because I personally know a lot of people who are part of the cleanup crew for burning man every year and they are absolutely fanatical about the “leave no trace” stuff. The cleanup after the event lasts for a month after it ends.
Unless they’re all lying to me I have a real hard time believing that they are leaving massive piles of trash behind. I’ve seen people get shit for years because they brought an outfit that shed glitter on the playa.
Of course, you’re 100% spot on about the water usage. And don’t get me started on the CO2 emissions .
If only all 70k people who attented thought like this
I think this is the crux of the matter, right here. No matter what steps the org takes (and I don’t think they’re taking enough) 70k people are going to generate a lot of trash. To an extent, the fact that the BM org is trying to rely on the visitors to practice “leave no trace” is creating a situation where everyone packs their trash out of burning man, and then dumps it in places like Reno at the first opportunity, if it doesn’t just fall out of their pickup trucks or whatever.
This lets people like my friends feel like they have successfully cleaned up the scene after the event, when the trash is really just elsewhere. Of course, I’m sure the people who run burning man know all of this, but still don’t want to spend the money needed to create some sort of waste management infrastructure that operates during the event.
All in all, it seems perfect for a party that’s attended by people like Peter Thiel.
I lived in the bay for years, which is where a bulk of burners come from. Whatever counter culture spirit it once had (shout out to the true freaks of gen x), it has been co-opted by tech money and clout seekers and people with no :zizek: ideology. The best part of burning man is all the bars being empty in Oakland/sf for the week
burning man functions as a release valve for revolutionary energy and as a way to split the quasileft by class: take the people who know something’s wrong with the world but still have a little money and convince them that the answer is to isolate themselves in the desert and dance naked for elon musk for 2 weeks a year
it sucks, it’s bad, burn something closer to civilization instead
Everything doesn’t need to be a profoundly revolutionary action. Even Fidel just straight up played soccer sometimes. I think it’s pretty harmless.
