Posted on 08/22/2014 11:38:42 AM PDT by BlopAndStop
The original Wicker Man film was made in 1973. Burning Man was certainly influenced by his highly influential movie.
It's just a giant rave. Anyone seeing some kind of social paradigm shift in it is just a glassy-eyed subculturist that's high on acid or MDMA.
I not even sure that long-time 'Burners' at this festival believe that Burning Man is anything more than a big rave in Nevada's Black Rock Desert. It attracts all kinds, but the ones who seem to really believe it's totally a cosmic experience (man) are the first and second-time attendees.
I live here. The Burners flood in this time of year with their dusty dreadlocks, 'art cars', fancy rental motor homes, etc. and promptly scour the Northern Nevada supermarket shelves clean of bottled water and packaged food. They're a welcome boon to our local economy for sure. Burning Man is hardly some anti-Capitalist exercise like the goofy liberal interviewed in this story seems to believe: There's a huge ongoing bone of contention about the 'commercialization' of the event that all comes to do 'what about the money?'. Anyone doing even the laziest research on the subject would immediately find all the lawsuits, LLCs, corporation battles, etc. concerning the fight within 'Black Rock City LLC' -- the big money-making personified corporation. Do you know how much tickets to this event cost? They're pretty expensive.
One question I've been wishing to ask all the tens of thousands of Californians flooding into Nevada for Burning Man is "Say, you have deserts in California suitable for holding this event. I know, because I grew up there. Can you tell me simply why you choose the state of Nevada for this festival instead of holding it in Calfornia? What's so special about Nevada?"
I'll tell you what the true answers are, point by point:
1. Nevada is MUCH freer than California. MUCH.
2. California would shake down Black Rock City LLC for all kinds of tax revenue, law enforcement, permits, sanitation, environmental impact studies, fences, crowd control, REMSA ambulances, and make the whole event a huge hassle for everyone involved. The event would die out from this alone.
3. Gang members would show up to crash the party and ruin the whole thing. They'd all pile into their hoopties to come see the naked white women and start fights. Stabbings and shootings ten minutes after they parked their G-ride. California's deserts aren't too far to drive for the urban trash, but the remote desert of Northern Nevada is.
4. Because of point #3, the LEO presence if this event were held in California would be like visiting a militarized camp twenty miles before you even got to the site. Hell, if Burning Man were held in California, there'd already have been maybe ten officer-involved shootings by now.
Someone honestly needs to record the Burners being asked why they are compelled to travel from the bluest of politically 'blue' areas to party and bay at the moon in what's basically the reddest regions of the USA: The simple fact is because it's that they can do it safely and without much hassle.
When the Burning Man is burnt on the last night of their drug-fueled pagan sacrifice festival, they pack up all their hippie trash and and head home back to The California Demokratic Republic (CDR) crossing over the state line into Socialist heaven. Nevada then cleans up, counts the money, and deals with whatever wayward left-behind human debris gets dumped in Reno because they missed their ride home back to whereever they came from.
They’re there already setting up for their show. I’m getting inundated with pix on Facebook. The company is pretty famous but I’d rather not name it. The tickets to see the shows are pretty expensive - the avant garde, whatever their claims, LOVE money. Certainly, my husband (who is not attending) would LOVE to see a huge influx of cash into the company, lol.
Nothing is free. Somebody paid for all of it.
“Woodsuck (sic) redux , move along...”
No kidding, and I bet all these enviroweenie hippies leave the place in the same condition as they found it.
NOT! Who pays for the cleanup, which must be enormous?
more like “a world without clothing”...
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