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Burning Man counterculture seeks social, political influence
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 9/1/03 | Don Thompson

Posted on 09/01/2003 6:20:58 PM PDT by MikalM

Edited on 04/13/2004 2:43:31 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Burning Man, the wild counterculture festival held annually in one of the nation's most remote areas, is coming to cities across America.

It's time to try to influence the very culture against which this year's record 30,500 Burning Man participants rebelled, the phenomenon's founder and resident visionary said in an interview.


(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Philosophy; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: anarchists; antiamerican; anticapitalists; antigovernment; art; burningman; counterculture; culturewar; drugs; environmentalists; festival; freaksonparade; girlsgonewild; greenieweenies; hedonists; hippies; libertines; nekidhippies; nevada; nuclearfamily; nudists; orgy; pagans; politics; religion; socialists; subculture; x; xtc
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To: firebrand
ping!
21 posted on 09/01/2003 10:16:37 PM PDT by nutmeg (Is the DemocRATic party extinct yet?)
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To: MikalM
It's time to try to influence the very culture against which this year's record 30,500 Burning Man participants rebelled...

That's only 500 more than in 2002, and far more of the attendees are smelly hippies now than dotcom fraudsters, since they're all working at McDonald's now and can't afford the trip. BM has peaked.

22 posted on 09/01/2003 10:22:42 PM PDT by Timesink
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To: tallhappy
Correct. Burning Man is much more dangerous and threatening to our freedoms and future.

Only if they are influential, and I doubt that.

A bunch of superannuated hippies? They are so over with, but they merely haven't died off yet.

If I'm wrong, they're a menace. If I'm wrong, prove it. This is sideshow freak stuff.

I'm more worried about Islamofascists.

23 posted on 09/01/2003 10:25:56 PM PDT by Salman (Mickey Akbar)
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To: MikalM
No commercialization of the festival? And this had franchise potential...
24 posted on 09/01/2003 10:45:25 PM PDT by weegee
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To: Timesink
The BM has passed?

Someone please tell these hippies their movement is over.

25 posted on 09/01/2003 10:49:04 PM PDT by weegee
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To: Soliv123
Except that they want to do it drinking mushroom tea, naked, while dancing around a large pagan figure.
26 posted on 09/01/2003 10:51:16 PM PDT by weegee
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To: tallhappy
One of the silliest things I've read in a long time.
27 posted on 09/01/2003 10:54:02 PM PDT by Mr Crontab
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To: viligantcitizen
Burning Man is attracting anti-capitalists. The antiWTO, antiG8, antiPresidential Convention, antiAmericanwar protestors probably made up a large contingent of the "counterculture" crowd at this event. The level of violence at their protests has grown; we are getting European style rioting at these protests (violence and vandalism).

The Islamofascists don't get a pass from law enforcement for their violent activities, the anticapitalists on the left coast do. Both pose a threat to our constitutional form of government, the degrees of threat may differ but they are both just as real.

28 posted on 09/01/2003 10:55:27 PM PDT by weegee
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To: MikalM
Dude I we were gonna like establish long-lasting political influence, but we totally flaked.
29 posted on 09/01/2003 11:11:21 PM PDT by MattAMiller
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To: weegee
Thanks for the explanation.
30 posted on 09/02/2003 4:00:40 AM PDT by Vigilantcitizen (Game on in ten seconds.....)
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