“It teaches self-reliance, self-responsibility, and civic coordination. As a conservative hippie myself, this is on my bucket list.”
The original Burning Man was closer to what you are describing.
Decades later it has gotten insanely huge and a place for the “cool people” to hang out with celebrities and show their fancy camping gear—just dumb at this point.
The trust fund teens are not real good at “self reliance”...
;-)
Used to be on the mud flats in the East Bay.