The leftist hippies that attend Burning Man are very peculiar. Here are random pictures from their 2005 online gallery of some of the crackpots who attended the event. They have psychological problems:
~ Blue Jays ~
Posted on 09/02/2006 6:02:00 PM PDT by wagglebee
A counter-culture arts festival which champions alternative living is being vetted by environmentalists for its contribution to global warming.
Burning Man bans the sale of anything but ice and coffee and declares clothing optional. The festival, which is expected to draw nearly 40,000 people to the Nevada desert this week, is described as an "experiment in temporary community dedicated to radical self-expression and radical self-reliance".
It has few rules, no structure and features performances, installation art and music, which culminate in the symbolic burning of a large wooden man. A group of San Francisco scientists, calling themselves Cooling Man, have launched a project to calculate how much greenhouse gas is produced by all the camper vans, private planes, flaming temples and fire eaters that descend for a week on the Black Rock Desert, 100 miles north of Reno.
Their website enables "burners", as festival participants are known, to calculate how much greenhouse gas they are creating and encourages them to offset emissions by planting trees, investing in renewable energy and buying greenhouse gas "credits". Just the construction, transportation and burning of the 40ft, 38-ton wood and neon man releases 114 tons of greenhouse gases, the team estimates.
The aim is to make the festival "climate positive" by more than offsetting the total emissions.
"Burning Man does a great job of getting on the ground after the event and picking up every nail and speck of glitter," said David Shearer, an air quality scientist from California Environmental Associates who helped form Cooling Man.
"But we want to take that to the next level — leaving no trace of greenhouse gases in the climate."
This seems more like moonbats vs moonbats to me.
"alternative living" = Commune Komrade.
Except the moonbats are basically the "mainstream" left these days.
Matter and anti-matter meeting.
I'd like to see them try in February in upstate NY. These whackos need a healthy dose of reality.
They've always seems a little strange, but harmless, to me.
There's probably plenty of discarded roaches to smoke.
Sounds a little like the "Bread and Puppet" event in Glover Vermont.
...And by that I mean it sounds kind of interesting and worthwhile if it emphasizes the self-sufficiency and ecology instead of the 'clothing optional' stuff.
Put some LSD in their soy and greens and they will love the Burning Man!!!!!!!!!
This is what you call green on green. Hehehehehe.
The leftist hippies that attend Burning Man are very peculiar. Here are random pictures from their 2005 online gallery of some of the crackpots who attended the event. They have psychological problems:
~ Blue Jays ~
[cue Christopher Lee]
"Come. It is time to keep your appointment with the Wicker Man."
i love these trust fund baby eco -radicals-they all drive diesels and crnak up the a/c all summer(i drive 4-cyl vehicles,use ceiling fans,and have the thermostat at 58 on winter nights)
They like being bizarre for the sake of being bizarre. If one really wanted to be counter-culture at this place, he or she would arrive wearing khaki shorts, a golf shirt, and sneakers and have a normal haircut with no tattoos or piercings. This is just a bunch of people conforming to their rebellion!
~ Blue Jays ~
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