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Snafu in the Void said:
I feel like it's almost become a mockery of itself, almost defeating the purpose, by how big and commercialized it's become
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what are you basing that on? it's hard to comment if you've not attended and you're only going off second-hand accounts.

i've always been of the opinion that if you ask 100 people how burning man was last year, you'll get 100 different answers.. and they're all right :)

is it big? definitely. i think my first year there were about 'just' 20,000 people. when i went in 2022 and 2023 there were over 85,000.

is it commercialized? not really but ymmv.

alasdair
 
Snafu in the Void said:
My perspective is moot because I've never been.
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no worries. you're as entitled to your opinion as the next person.

in my experience, a lot of criticism of the event would be very different if it were based on first-hand experience rather than second-hand account.

when i went in 2022, i had not been for 16 years. so many people told me "you'll be disappointed!" and "it's awful now" and so on. for me, the essential zeitgeist of the event hadn't changed a bit and i had an absolute blast.

alasdair
 
alasdairm said:
oh, i will not be there this year @kiely or next year. maybe 2026.

alasdair
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@alasdairm

I hope everything works out. <3


The desert is amazing and the burning makes it all the more intriguing. It's fascinating.

Thank you for sharing from your heart. And your connections and experiences from there too.
 
it was the burn on saturday and many attendees will have left yesterday and today.

a friend sent me this: I was wrong about Burning Man

"BLACK ROCK CITY, Nev. — There must be something wrong with me. A Burner with blue hair just told me that she loved my “energy.” Not only did I smile back, but I was genuinely touched.

I’ve spent the last week at Burning Man, surrounded by aging hippies, rich Europeans, fire twirlers and engineers gone wild. My skin is buried under a seven-layer dip of dust, sweat, sunscreen and spilled beer. My ears are still ringing slightly from the nightly barrage of electronic music. On a given day here, I’ve seen a lifetime’s worth of bare cheeks. I am desperate to go home. But somehow, I’m happy.

Listen: I did not come to Burning Man solely to have fun. I was sent here for work, by my editors at SFGATE. I am not a Burning Man person. If anything, I am — was — what you might call a Burning Man hater. It’s not the mud, the dust, or the heat, or any of the other Biblical plagues thrown daily at this hostile landscape. It’s the culture. Or what I thought it was, anyway." (my emphasis)

it's a quick read.

alasdair
 
indeed.

by my conservative estimate, there have been a total of about 1.15M attendees at burning man since its inception.

there have been a total of about 13 deaths at, or around, the event.

alasdair
 
I missed my chance to attend when they moved it to the mesa. The climate there is beyond anything I wish to experience at my age.
 
alasdairm said:
indeed.

by my conservative estimate, there have been a total of about 1.15M attendees at burning man since its inception.

there have been a total of about 13 deaths at, or around, the event.

alasdair
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Terrible but not bad for over 25 yrs , I burned twice long ago,when it was really cool,but honest no deaths no births should have happened, they have great nurses
 
Love Hope Happiness Respect

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I like the desert. It's fun. <3
 
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