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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
 
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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.
 
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