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thunderlips11 says

But others supported the attack, saying it was time to "take back" the festival

by the Marxists.

Storm the 0.1 percent oppressors and hippie chick bush thieves at Burning Man! Take back the Burn!

P N Dr Lo R says

by the Marxists.

That might be so, but somebody joining the Ayn Rand club and expecting to be fed and given free alcohol because they are poor makes just as much sense.

I suppose it's just another Hippie thing turned into a Yuppie thing, though.

The burners have discovered the use and benefit of Locke principles.

It must be disappointing to find out the Marxist "principles" don't work so good.

The people who attend this event are nothing but a bunch of phonies anyway. I can promise you, 99% of them are on some kind of public assistance and claim phony disabilities.

I think the bigger issue that set off this attack is the rich don't share. If they had an open camp, just like everyone else, and shared, just like everyone else, people would love having them and the finer things they brought to the event.

The Burners need to learn about property rights

jazz music says

ala Ayn Rand (queen phoney)

You're right about her.

P N Dr Lo R says

You're right about her.

She had some points, more than I can say for Jazz

rando says

The poor themselves are the wealth of the rich.

So very true.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/not-burning-monday-august-19-2024

It’s been almost exactly a year since I last reported about the annual festival of neo-pagan excess called “Burning Man.” Careful readers will recall last year’s event was not very festive, as flash rains created tarlike mud conditions, and 70,000 glamping ex-attendees ponderously fled in boggy slow motion, all at the same time, creating a glutinous traffic jam that could be seen from space.




That wasn’t all. The unusual composition of the mud in that particular area of the desert caused chemical burns, leading to an unpleasant and unsightly condition that, for lack of a better name, attendees called ‘playa foot.’

Attendees swore it was nothing like normal mud. The gluey substance had a sticky, poured-concrete-like quality, and a weird, malicious kind of life of its own. Trapped for several days by closed roads, the victims also endured wild rumors of an Ebola outbreak, causing some to flee in panic across the glutinous desert on their playa feet, abandoning their now-useless vehicles.

So perhaps it’s not surprising the San Fransisco Standard ran a sad story last week headlined, “Burners eat huge losses in desperate race to sell unwanted Burning Man tickets.” Our old friend 2024 has done it again and set a new record. As the article glumly explained, this is the very first year since 2011 that Burning Man didn’t sell out within minutes of going online.

The show starts in six days. The article described regular event goers “getting screwed,” scrambling to offload pricey unwanted tickets and finding only bargain basement buyers. The anti-capitalists who normally eschew materialism are throwing their chai lattes at the wall in outrage at shockingly lowball offers, and can afford no sympathy for less wealthy folks who might have their first chance to go.

In case you were considering making an offer, events still planned include a ‘naked bacon breakfast’ and a ‘sensual hot dog eating contest.’ But even with those attractions, burners sense an era is ending:

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By invoking schadenfreude at the top of this report, I did not mean to suggest I am happy about the festival’s financial failure. That’s not quite the right word. I need a long, hard-to-pronounce German word to capture the precise flavor of the feeling. I’ll think of something.

But ironically, it was nature, after all, which might have quenched the orgiastic, nature-worshipping event climaxing with a symbolic human sacrifice. Or it was an expression of Divine distaste? You choose.

the anomaly that they are alive at burning man is god being soft on sinners. in the
bible it was around 23,000 who died at that event when it occurred back then.

It is a useless event. Your brain doesn't function if you go to that thing. I'd rather hang with 4 good friends then go to that shit show of fuckery. I can't even contemplate how BM is enjoyable, no different than diarrhea (pun intended). I'll just camp at my local state park. Not listen to people run around blaring shit music wearing outfits for gays. Besides Utah, Arizona, Idaho and Montana, everything west of the Rockies can secede from the country at this point. Too much influence and don't live in reality.

I'm at the point where no one wants you guys to be part of this country. The ass blasting Kamala would get if CA, OR and WA were not included in the vote would be like beating a baby seal. Democrats literally cannot win without California and I don't ever see that changing. It's events like BM that warp peoples minds of what the real world is.

Weak men create hard times,
Hard times create hard men,
Hard men create good times,
Good times create weak men
....

They should advertise it as an LBGQT event in the desert, a monkey pox and drug orgy free for all, and call it the "Burning Hole" event.

stereotomy says

Weak men create hard times,
Hard times create hard men,
Hard men create good times,
Good times create weak men
....

WookieMan says

It is a useless event. Your brain doesn't function if you go to that thing.

It's the last gasp of the hippie dippie shit, become a poseur event for silicon valley besties who could afford to import the girls in nice tents with caviar and champagne. It sounds like a terrible place to use pschydelics. Any loose guy going there with pretenses of getting laid might see a few paid female exhibitionists with rich, mean boyfriends, but otherwise would just get lung fulls of desert alkalai and bad trips.

Having been to a few of these 'be ins' in the day, I know that they can wind up being pretty depressing. Too much stark challenging of the reality matrix. The more challenge, the more drugs you need.

Ceffer says

Having been to a few of these 'be ins' in the day, I know that they can wind up being pretty depressing. Too much stark challenging of the reality matrix. The more challenge, the more drugs you need.

Why I stopped going to festivals. It was fun for a moment. Hit 25 and said WTF am I doing? Are there people good to their core, sure, some. It's mostly losers. That's why I'm ranting on the thread that's mainly about the Dead. Most bands at these things have limited to no talent. And yes I know Burning Man is not a music festival.

I've just never understood Burning Man. It's a bunch of immature young adults riding around on one wheels and scooters doing drugs in skimpy outfits and getting STD's. Sounds like a blast. Then it rains and they don't have basic survival skills. Fucking retards.

Not going there is the most basic survival skill.

I went to BM 20 years ago. Too much even then, never again. Since then, one thing I've taken up is land sailing. A cart with 3 wheels and a sail that you can get up to 50 mph across a good smooth playa. You go for the wind and the peacefulness of the place. I have favorite places in Nevada and Oregon and I hope the BM fuckwits never go there. Black Rock is a sacrifice zone. Let them have it. Not that great for sailing.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/t-minus-3-saturday-november-2-2024

Anyone who’s been following the C&C Burning Man coverage knows we take a dim view of all this excess in the desert, and have tracked its long, slow rise alongside various cultural red flags, and count its rapid fall as generally good cultural news, procured in this case largely by Bidenic economic pressures and extremely wet weather.

Burning Man, Inc. is now seeking donations. It’s anyone’s guess why donating to this insane, irreligious, hedonistic desert concert is necessary, appropriate, or charitable in any way. It apparently needs $20M by this time next year to stay afloat, or at least avoid a price increase that the CEO warns will make the concert “less diverse.”

A twenty million dollar shortfall. For a “grassroots” concert venue, on nearly-free land, where people bring their own accomodations, food, supplies, and supposedly are roughing it. What could possibly be so expensive?

Burning Man is fake. Fake, fake, fake.

The article includes a link to Burning Man’s own proprietary donation page, where it explains that donations are tax-deductible. For some reason. I did not make that up.

Non-profit laws desperately need refreshing.

Why would anyone go? I did festivals when I was younger, but that was bands with talent and not shit music and a ton a fucking weirdos. Sure their were drugs, but I don't see the appeal of Burning Man at all. I swear it's just a slut fest for guys to try and fuck as many chicks as they can.

It's the definition of debauchery. There's no use for it. Even though I'm discussing with what's his nuts in another thread, this is case it point that I don't stand for bull shit. Burning Man is a trash show of shit.

I don't know. With an air conditioned tent, a helicopter, and ten resident hookers pretending to be writhing hippie chicks, it might be OK.