“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.
Washed up psycho Marian Goodell has a problem… the Burning Man festival is no longer “hot”
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 went to Burning Man”
“Thanks for the info!” ✍️
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.
Nah, not for me. None of it sounds good to me, even with casual sex. Plenty of beautiful, showered working class girls in cities to meet.
Stinky ass, dusty ass rich drugged hippies sounds fucking gross.
if you were a rich hippy
Honestly burning man just seems like a more pretentious version of a music festival.
Honestly burning man just seems like a more pretentious version of a music festival.
Isn’t that what it’s always been?
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.
Thank you for that link. It was very funny to read through ghoul bios
burning man
board of directors
Same. Can’t imagine it got better during the last decade plus
Why would anyone pay to get Ebola?
Award-worthy bit
a few more years of this (scaring off the techbros) and burning man might be kinda cool again
That’s what we’re all hoping.
As a young white hippieish dude with dreads I desperately wanted to go sadly I don’t think I ever will.
Why hasn’t Burning Man turned into a giant crypto grift by now anyway? Or has it?
It always was, it was just waiting for crypto to be invented. There’s a sheer cliff of class divide between the rich techbros who fly in to party and the poor working artists who bring all the cool shit. But it’s always been a place for tech bros to go slumming with the freaks and geeks. Having spent time with burners i don’t think it was ever “good”. The " good" parts have always been people who find community despite the hyperindividualist neoliberal cultural void of burning man at a high level.
Burning man is still a thing? Lol
I thought this was a thing that washed up rich folks spend their money on to buy ‘cultural experience’. I’m surprised this is still a thing…actually maybe not.
The blame for this rests squarely on the shoulders of Rachel Jake.
As time goes on, artists I know have been going to Burning Man less and less. I’m not sure it was ever great, but it seems it’s become a lot more “rich Californian” and less “independent artist”
It’s been trending farther and farther in to the depths of shitty tech bro orgy for decades. Idk if it ever was actually cool. I know a bunch of burners who are actual weird poor artists, and they have to all pool their couch money, bum rides, save, and “volunteer” to afford to go. Meanwhile wealthy people just buy all the shit they need and when they’re done “leaving no trace” they dump tens of tons of trash in nearby cities and towns in Nevada. It’s all an ugly, gaudy sham of hyperindividualism, exploitation, bougie gentrification of art as a concept, and dickbaggery. My weird burner buddies love it to death and all i can see is the hollow commodification of art by capitalism as incredibly rich people create this massive altar to hipocrisy where they bring in tons of weirdos so they can pretend to have culture while they do drugs and wander around naked then fuck off back to San Francisco to leave the artists who make it possible to starve and suffer for another year.
I feel like all the magic has flowed down into the smaller regional burns at this point. Those are obviously hit or miss depending on your local scene, and you don’t get quite the same huge community pieces as the big burn, but there’s usually plenty enough to keep you busy just checking everything out for the whole event anyways, let alone a thousand times that if you really get involved with volunteering/organizing. Hell in a previous state I lived in, there were a few smaller local burns and then a bigger state-wide one, so even then you could kinda pick and choose how big and crazy of a thing you wanted to attend/do.
I need to start looking at local options around here…
Yeh. I’ve only ever been to a regional one. It was a generally positive experience. Met lots of weird hippies, danced some, participated in a lingerie parade (fun fact, I do not fit well in lingerie), didn’t get flooded out.
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Guy who has a mud fetish buying a ticket only to be disappointed this year.
incredibly unusual
you think so?
Didn’t they already do this like 3 months ago?
