Posted on 08/22/2014 11:38:42 AM PDT by BlopAndStop
Is Burning Man a huge art installation, a social experiment, or simply a giant rave? The people who get behind the first two concepts are the ones who believe strongly in bringing their children to the Burn. They pack up their Suburbans, slather on sunscreen, and outfit their kids in tiny wildebeest costumes.
“This will always be a family-friendly event,” Burning Man employee Jim Graham stated on NPR recently. Based on their principle of radical inclusion, Burning Man officials “enthusiastically welcome children of all ages to Black Rock City.”
Since the festival is an experiment in freedom and creative expression, there are very few rules and restrictions related to parenting on the playa, as long as you understand that you alone are legally responsible for your children.
So, bring your kids, they say, as long as you’re willing to supervise them yourself. But please, don’t bring your dog.
Most of the parents I talked to waited until their kids were at least five years old before they took them to Burning Man, but San Francisco mom Mata Smith took her baby when he was five months old. She’s been bringing him back ever since – this year will be the two-year-old’s third round.
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Clothing Free Zone
Absolutely.
Nothing like walking past the recovering celebrants, the morning after, to teach your kids the value of sobriety.
Man dies after running into fire at Burning Man Festival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdeeY3ZUUUk
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“A world without money”?
So they all got there on foot through the desert without spending a penny on fuel? No motel stops along the way?
The didn’t have to feed themselves on the trip in?
“Like, wow, man, heavy dude”
Then reality sets in....
Woodsuck (sic) redux , move along...
What is the carbon footprint of the Burning Man festival? How do these liberals justify their footprint to go there???
World without money?
LOL
Every single person I know, who has gone, makes as much money as I do or more...
Idiocy...
“They get paid once the thing is over. Would you take your kids to this? “
Actually it’s expensive. Our youngest daughter and some of her friends are going. Tickets ( and they are limited) are something on the order of $400 per person! BTW, the Black Rock Desert isn’t anything like Woodstock. It’s a dry lakebed that’s dusty and hot! Used to rent the place from the BLM to test ordinance during the Viet Nam days.
A celebration of counterculture and personal freedom now requires reservations and entry fees. Not Woodstock but Disney World in the desert. Paint yourself blue and run around nude and you end up being arrested. Washoe and Persing Counties have narks there.
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Of course no money.
They squeeze water out of the rocks,and then one of them performs a miracle with the bread,fish and weed until all are satiated.
Definitely not “a world without loonies” there.
My husband’s theater company is currently at Burning Man. Burning Man came about because of the popularity of the movie The Wicker Man - the first year they had a gigantic wicker man that was set on fire - impressive as hell. It has more to do with myth and ritual than hippies running around nude. We have a show there that is being put on in the coming weeks. It was first shown in Manhattan - good show. Many avant garde groups show up - it’s quite interesting. You can only have bicycles at Burning Man - no personal chefs or helicopters or private planes. My husband’s group hired a small RV which is kept at a distance. The temperatures soar into the 100s and then plummet at night.
In fact, you have to drive from Reno to get there - 100 miles.
Ha, everything is supposed to use the barter system. Based on voluntary trade. Sounds like the same economic system that has been around forever. Money is just barter, trading value for value. It was discovered long ago that trading something you have (goats) for something you want (pottery) is not effecient especially if the pottery vendor does not need goats. So some brilliant guy came up with a way for every to trade a common easy to use item that represents value. That way the guy with the goats can trade his goats to someone who needs them and fit this value in his pocket, to trade these with the pottery vendor for his pots, so the pottery vendor can now go to the beer vendor and get his nightly buzz going without being burdened with a pocket full of goats. The same things happens at burning man, but they have removed thousands of years of human learning. Though the laws of value and supply and demand still hold, as I will guarantee you will not find somebody who will trade their sleeping bag for a piece of your stupid “art”
Love it! You have to have the bucks and the leisure to go to Burning Man with your precious spawn; er, what is that but money? If they didn’t make it themselves, Grammaw and Grampaw did, and these losers are just living on their inheritances. Burning Man isn’t free and registration is around $600 per person (although they seem to have dropped it to half as of now, because registration must be down this year), and the organizers are making a profit on it and won’t let you in if you don’t pay your fees.
So that’s a couple of thousand per family, just to enter, not counting all the other expenses. Money? Not so unnecessary after all.
“A world without money”?
I know people that spend thousands of dollars to go to this thing, every year.
What utter BS....
I’m sure there are good performers there. I’m not that fond of Celtic fire myths (particularly since they used to burn real human beings in their rituals) but they’re all the rage now and do attract an audience.
I’ve been at things like this, and while you can’t have private chefs, the idea that this is a festival of the humble poor starving artist and a “world without money” is ridiculous.
That said, what does your husband’s group do?
Burning Man has been around since 1986, long before the Wicker Man movie. Per Wikipedia:
The event is similar to another event, the burning of Zozobra, or "Old Man Gloom" which has taken place on Labor Day weekend in Santa Fe, NM since 1926.
“family-friendly”
Remember, attendees have a notion of what constitutes “family-friendly” which is very, very different from yours.
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