There are many things that I don't like about burning man. One is that it takes it name from a real Celtic ritual and is not true to the origin. Burning man is like fire walking if the man lived he would be king. It wasn't for very long and it represented the overcoming the material. The fact that this spiritual journey costs over one hundred dollars and comes with twenty five thousand other seekers makes it a commercial venue and not a journey.
However, the fact that twenty five thousand people are looking for art and a experience is heartening in some way. So what if it is Neo Christo recycled seventies crap. They want art. Which means they might go to a museum, or look up historacal contect or have an original thought one day. Something important may happen.
The romance of the appocolypse has wanned in my eyes since it seems more immenant. North Korea is making bombs aimed at us. Use of nuclear weapons is a real possibility. There are people stocking up on the would be currency of cigarettes.
For a few days these people are not students or failed dot commers or bike messanger or lawyers. they are citizens. They are less lonely as modern primitives. The events marketing could only be successful if it met a need. It does the need for the orgiastic experience. It is the same frenzy of a tent revival.
The idea of the collective is more enticing than the collective itself. Those who wish to move the community into their daily lives are often disappointed by the result. Burning man is the cult of the want to be dispossesd. Those of us who really live in shopping carts and see aliens in the lights are not welcome.
Peircing tatooing and ritual pain that take place without a cultural context is devoid of the meaning within the tribe. It is the the plight of the fleeting aborigine with the public relations job.
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There are many things that I don't like about burning man. One is that it takes it name from a real Celtic ritual and is not true to the origin. Burning man is like fire walking if the man lived he would be king. It wasn't for very long and it represented the overcoming the material. The fact that this spiritual journey costs over one hundred dollars and comes with twenty five thousand other seekers makes it a commercial venue and not a journey. However, the fact that twenty five thousand people are looking for art and a experience is heartening in some way. So what if it is Neo Christo recycled seventies crap. They want art. Which means they might go to a museum, or look up historacal contect or have an original thought one day. Something important may happen. The romance of the appocolypse has wanned in my eyes since it seems more immenant. North Korea is making bombs aimed at us. Use of nuclear weapons is a real possibility. There are people stocking up on the would be currency of cigarettes. For a few days these people are not students or failed dot commers or bike messanger or lawyers. they are citizens. They are less lonely as modern primitives. The events marketing could only be successful if it met a need. It does the need for the orgiastic experience. It is the same frenzy of a tent revival. The idea of the collective is more enticing than the collective itself. Those who wish to move the community into their daily lives are often disappointed by the result. Burning man is the cult of the want to be dispossesd. Those of us who really live in shopping carts and see aliens in the lights are not welcome. Peircing tatooing and ritual pain that take place without a cultural context is devoid of the meaning within the tribe. It is the the plight of the fleeting aborigine with the public relations job.