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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.
Isn't that what it's always been?