[rktman]

They're backkkkk! But, a lot of them are headed out to the playa starting today and they'll be gone for a week. Then we'll be visited by dusty patchoulli oil soaked folks for another probably two weeks post burning man. We already have the skunk weed smell wafting around. Oddly, the supposed anti establishment counter culture festival brings in hundreds of RVs from all over the place and mostly empties a lot of shelves at local wal marts. If I recall, the least expensive access pass was around $800. And that's if you were lucky enough to get in line early. Then at the culmination the participants "Burn THE Man". Yeah, capitalism sure does suck. Art festival. Well, there are some pretty clever pieces put together. As long as no one gets hurt........

[Steely Tom]

Burning man... who cares?

Hedonism and excess... how is that different than everyday life in San Francisco or Los Angeles?

[rktman]

More on the finances and demographics of the event. Weird that at the end of the piece it says the gap between the haves and have not is growing. Hmmmm. I wonder if that has anything to do with those that can fly into the makeshift airport on the playa.

https://qz.com/1367064/who-goes-to-burning-man-four-charts-tell-a-changing-story/

[rexthecat]

A couple of years ago someone lit the burning man on fire two days before it was supposed to go up. So funny! The party was ruined.

[Jack Hammer]

Gee, used to be you had to let your hair grow out and drop acid, then hitch hike to the Haight if you wanted to get mentally dislocated and transmit STDs to strangers while f***ing like a stoat. Now you can live in any American suburb and do the same things without the inconvenience.

[Berlin_Freeper]

I want the credit for adding burningstd keyword.

[LostInBayport]

I know very little about this event, but every headline or photo I happen to see gives me a creepy vibe.

[\/\/ayne]

I like phone booths and payphones and found a funny story about how at Burning Man some telephony geeks set up a landline phone though a satellite connection and VOIP. They ran a line under the sand to a little distance away from their vehicle and set up a free payphone just sitting there mysteriously in the desert. It was hilarious to think how people would use and perhaps wonder how a payphone got to be planted in the desert with no visible connection. Of course, some would be too "toasted" to figure it out and just assume "the phone company" put it there.

[vette6387]

We've had this nonsense going on here at our place in CA for a number of years. Our youngest ( and single) daughter and her friends left early Friday with a U-haul van ( they are a sponsor) and a Suburban with enough $hit to stay a month. Two of the males in the group are Nuclear Physicists at Lawrence Berkeley lab, three others are Engineering Students at UC Berkeley. And a couple of fathers and uncles are going as well. Two years ago, I had to go to Gerlach and rescue them when the guy who was towing our trailer left because of some kind of disagreement. To their credit. the promoters got us to 12 mile road ( the service entrance to the Playa thus avoiding the literally ten thousand cars that were leaving via 8 Mile road). We were "led" to the campsite by a BM "Ranger" ( i.e. a bearded old coot in a clapped out Toyota land cruiser who went by the name "Ranger Coyote"). He managed to get lost, but while we were "refreshing" or directions, he was joined by "The Girl with the Golden Breasts" ( a more than amply endowed gal clad only in short shorts, who needed "help" finding her lost bicycle). Coyote came back when we were finally ready to leave and took us back out via 12 mile road, thus avoiding the 15 hour wait to leave the Playa. Everyone should probably put Burning Man on their bucket list. And you are right about the "wealthy" showing up. Lots of trailers and motor homes and they also set up a runway for light planes.

[Leep]

Isn’t how Sodom and Gomorrah got its start?

[VanDeKoik]

Back in the early 90s as a teen, I absolutely wanted to go to Burning Man.

Maybe it was a bit more true to something, but that went out the window real fast, and it became just some overpriced, rave-hipster corporate event cesspit.

I’m actually surprised that it is still going on.

[trisham]

Not my kind of event at all.

[Lockbar]

Wealthy but geeky 50-60 y.o. IT nerds in sparkly stove pipe hats trying to have sex with drugged out 20 y.o. Cali babes.

[NYAmerican]

And let us not forget that the Silicon Valley Billionaire Elite, the muscle behind the drive into a leftist totalitarian state, are amongst these drug crazed devil worshipers.

https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-ceos-love-burning-man-2017-8#sergey-brin-and-larry-page-founders-of-google-2

[waterhill]

And here I am complaining about weekend lake traffic...

[webheart]

They are so anti-commercial yet tickets to get in cost thousands of dollars.

[plain talk]

Far out man!

[A strike]

So what are they celebrating/worshiping, the extreme torture death of a human being ?

[SVTCobra03]

Burning Man is a satanic celebration of depraved degenerates and narcissistic hedonists.

[waterhill]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/burning-man-festival-orgy-dome-sexual-consent-me-too-campaign-a8508551.html

[4Liberty]

Bar-crawling in the desert - no thanks