That’s reasonable, sure.
I wasn’t trying to call out you and @Japhroaig personally; there’s been some very silly arguments here (and elsewhere) whenever Burning Man has come up before, is all.
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Oh, I can imagine.
Some people get themselves so worked up over the most inconsequential things…
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They radically self express.
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The song retains the name.
An ostensibly anarchist event coordinated with the feds makes itself irrelevant.
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Does it bother you when someone justifies their irrational feelings using straw man arguments? Becuase that’s what you appear to have done. Sure, some people have said those things. And those are the least true things. Surely they’ve been said though.
Now, all the other things… What about those?
Nobody from comic con reflexively defends comic con, becuase they don’t have to. Nobody attacks comic con. Because there isn’t anything annoying, contrived, hollow, sold-out, pretentious, or reprehensible about it. Less true about BM.
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Ahahahaha, what? Do you know what Comic-Con is? You realize it’s a place where nerds with money go to be advertised at and buy lifestyle accessories, right?
I mean, I’d like to go! As a nerd who (sometimes) has money and enjoys lifestyle accessories, I’m into it! But I think you may possibly be extremely confused?
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I never have any idea what you’re talking about.
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Why not challenge yourself? Live a little!
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It’s beautifully Gibsonesque, is it not? Like Lamp Editor.
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Nobody makes fun of comiccon because its not nice to laugh at large groups of the socially disabled.
Plus, it’s all six of those things above.
I go to Burning Man to cool off. But I live in Southern Arizona, which is somewhat more humid and hotter.
I spent a couple weeks in Tokyo this July, where the temperature never got above 85F, but the humidity was very high. It was more stifling than the 95F, 5% humidity heat of Black Rock City.
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There’s a Ken Macleod novel whose protagonist is Lucinda Carlyle, combat archaeologist.
Edit: Newton’s Wake is the title.
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Don’t hate the game, hate the playa.
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It’s a $30 million weeklong party in the desert. With extras.
At $500 a head, if one pays one’s share of the vehicle pass.
They don’t serve my kind there.
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How do you think Burning Man ought to change its policy to fix that?
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Oh, it’s obviously too big and expensive now to manage that. Might as well ask the sun to light my cigar.
If I can’t fit into the sprocket-hole, it’s unreasonable for me to ask the machine to fit itself around me. I’ll find something else to do this week.
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That doesn’t answer my question. You clearly think they’re doing something wrong. What is it specifically?
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Cheaper than some Aussie festivals. Byron Bay Bluesfest will set you back US$600 for 5 days (inc camping fees).
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That does answer it: they can’t fix it. It’s gotten too big and expensive. The joint was my size and accessibility-level in the 1990s; now it’s out of my reach for the present and the foreseeable future. Their overhead has ballooned (109 year-round employees in 2014, a half million dollars in travel, convention, and speaking fees, 100 crew vehicles, etc.) as their relevance to my life has diminished. I’d be as out-of-place as I would be at Pebble Beach.
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Have you looked at the regional burns? There’s a lot of them, and they’re smaller and cheaper.
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