Posted on 09/03/2017 7:05:46 AM PDT by rktman
Let me make clear something that professor Wax's "Anglo-Protestant" comment implies: America's "bourgeois values" are superior because they are, essentially, Christian values. Thus, a bourgeois culture is superior because it is essentially a Christian culture, and that ultimately is why the left attacked Wax's and Alexander's piece. As The Miracle and Magnificence of America – and any other sound account of U.S. history – reveals, America was founded by Christians and upon Christian values and principles. The death, disease, and moral rot so prevalent in much of America today is there because many of us have abandoned these values and decided to make our own rules.
Nowhere is this clearer than with the obscene "Burning Man Festival" just finished in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. In what could be billed as a liberal utopia, the Burning Man Festival – often referred to simply as "Burning Man" (B.M.) – has been notoriously noted for its nude welcoming committee, "mass lesbian romps," obscene sculptures, and human petting zoo. And what festival organized, occupied, and run by those corrupted by liberalism would be complete without an "Orgy Dome"? But it's conservatives who are "obsessed with sex," right?
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From the Reno gazette journal:
“Tens of thousands of dusty revelers cheered with wild abandon Saturday night as the Burning Man festival reached a high point with the fiery destruction of the 40-foot-tall man.
Drummers and electronic dance music filled the air with a cacophony of sound as fire dancers, fireworks and flames sent the structure flaring into the desert night.
The Man towered over this temporary city of 70,000 for a week as participants danced, partied and admired fantastical art and sculptures.
The Man burn is a traditionally rowdy event, and will be followed Sunday night by the subdued burning of the Temple, another wooden structure stuffed with notes, remembrances and memories consigned to the flames.
The annual event is held in an otherwise featureless ancient dry lake bed two hours north of Reno. Participants are encouraged to arrive for the weeklong event totally self-sufficient but also to “gift” to each other food, drinks and trinkets.
After the debris from the burns cools, volunteers will clear or away, returning the desert to its pristine condition, as required by the organization’s federal land-use permit.”
From what I’ve read and heard, someone does do a good job of policing the area.
Some tame photos from the RGJ:
Looks like some dusty fun eh?
So how much carbon dioxide is released by the burns themselves and all tbe partiers’ travels to get there instead of staying at home in their non-air conditioned 250 square foot eviromentalist approved apartments?
I am sure the BM has morphed into something other than what started as.
Some guy who decided to have a bon fire cause his lady friend wouldn’t marry.
But let’s not get carried away with the BM is evil incarnate.
Well, maybe not evil, just messy to deal with at times. Other times just fine. ;-)
Shhhhh. Most likely part of the ticket fees go to buy carbon credits. Yeah, that’s it. Promoting things buy destroying things.
“From what I’ve read and heard, someone does do a good job of policing the area.”
Burning Man is 99.9% white people. Not exactly a rap concert.
Fifteen seconds late!
“I am sure the BM has morphed into something other than what started as.”
I worked at the USG plant in Empire from 91 to 94 so was there when it first started. It was a little more about art and 50 cal tracer bullets and explosions back then. I used to run into John Law and Larry Harvey alot just random locations in the desert back then, they were always shooting something. I still got my ‘66 cruiser and camp in the region alot, though I avoid the surface of the playa itself, and the surrounding hotsprings. There are much more interesting dry lakes 100% devoid of people or artificial lights with all sorts of interesting rock formations and ghost towns to explore if you know where to look. Even found the only whole intact stamp mill I have ever seen not in a museum.
But THIS year...Burning man could have been different. All the promotional, admissions, and operating fees could have been donated to the relief efforts of Hurricane Harvey. All the Food vendors could have rushed to Texas to feed the hungry, and the participants could have flocked there to help distribute food. But did they? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Nice.
The narcissistic left has Burning Man while the altruistic right has the Cajun Navy. How interesting that they were both active at the same time.
Yes Indeed.
The people with the strongest opinions on BM, and the surety of what it’s about, have never been.
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