BURNING MAN - Elites get “burned” by the hooligans.

[ozmirage]

BURNING MAN
Elites get “burned” by the hooligans.

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/sep/05/luxury-camp-at-burning-man-festival-targeted-by-hooligans
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Pershing County sheriff’s office was called to the festival to investigate after the night-time raid targeting the White Ocean camp as it hosted its “white party”, where ravers dress in white and dance all night to techno music.

Its organisers wrote on Facebook: “Guys, I think what happened last night should be known on social media … A band of hooligans raided our camp, stole from us, pulled and sliced all of our electrical lines leaving us with no refrigeration and wasting our food and glued our trailer doors shut, vandalised most of our camping infrastructure, dumped 200 gallons of potable water flooding our camp.”

The response from festival regulars has been split, with sympathy towards the camp tempered by many who say that the “prank” on White Ocean, a closed zone funded by tech entrepreneurs, was “taking burning man back from the parasite class”.
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There's nothing like "Left Envy" to spur vandalism (mindless destruction for no one's benefit).

[Carmody]

The event has turned into a rich tourist's spectacle.

Like a rich man paying for a bag of blow and a hooker for a few nights on a foreign business trip...before returning to the regimented and controlled (tightly wound) world.... it's become exactly what it was not supposed to be.

lets get clear about this. the article states,


A third commenter vented his despair over the path that Burning Man has taken. Robert Murray wrote: “I remember before the wealthy silicone valley snobs took over the Black Rock Desert with all their commercialism the Burning Man was a FREE event. Now tickets disappear within 45 minutes of offering at around $850.00 each.

That's tickets, ie a closed controlled event...and 60k plus participants.

That's over 50 million US dollars in revenue per event. That's a slow way to become a billionaire from creating such an event, but it could be done.

So burning man has become a sick joke. Which is what it looked like in the stories and imagery that I've seen on the past 4-5-6 years.

A totally uncool space filled with societally hypnotized asshats who've got their reality on completely mirrored and backward. The feeling pouring through the images and stories about the event... gives me the creeps. Caricature of the worst kind. Illiterate imitation of things they don't understand.

This sort of thing also plays out in the music world.

The black man in the US makes some incredible music.

The white man steals it and changes it and it enters the white world of music and makes millions.

The black man changes his music.

The white man steals it again and the same thing happens, again. Millions made for the white performer and his associated music delivery and commercialization systems.

So the black man changes his music again.

And the white man steals it for a third time and makes it into another slick caricature.

The essence of what the music really is and what it represents.... is diluted and mirrored/twisted and rendered near meaningless. Palatable and preferred tastes of meaningless pap for the given stultified culture. The real thing dies in the darkness and dirt while the caricature is elevated into a monstrosity.

The question is that..is it good for society to get the things it can understand, or is it better for it to be excluded from the things it does not understand?

Music and culture as a shared psychosis of comfortable dogma.



“Do not repeat after me words that you do not understand. Do not merely put on a mask of my ideas, for it will be an illusion and you will thereby deceive yourself.”

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I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. That is my point of view, and I adhere to that absolutely and unconditionally. Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief. A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others. This is what everyone throughout the world is attempting to do. Truth is narrowed down and made a plaything for those who are weak, for those who are only momentarily discontented. Truth cannot be brought down, rather the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountain-top to the valley. If you would attain to the mountain-top you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices. -Jiddu krishnamurti

The danger is that the caricature emulation becomes the new reality. Which is the wedge point where control and elites enter the story, via manipulation of that blind gap in the witless society. It can happen through malfeasance, or innocence ---or some combination of the two. But it can be the norm, the ritual, the dogma of the newly integrated tastes and nibbles of the charm of the different and the strange.

[Althena]

Just love it. Keep it up "hooligans"

[TargeT]

More proof:

EVERY TIME a movement, organization or anything "gets big" it also gets corrupted.

This is a super common pattern.

[ozmirage]

Before you "dump" on them for charging fees, one visitor who was accidentally burned at the 2005 event unsuccessfully sued Black Rock City, LLC. You can bet that defeating that claim cost a bundle.
Blame the legal system for the ever escalating requirements they have to comply with in order to get "permits" and such.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Man

FYI - they began charging a fee in 1992.

[onawah]

A guy who just got back from Burning Man struggles mightily to explain what Burning Man was like to a loser who's never been to Burning Man. 9/6/16
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[joeecho]

At one point, years ago, I wanted to go to Burning Man and then a couple years ago I started researching it quite a bit and saw that it no longer resembled that which made me interested back then. My interest went from 90-100% to 5-10%. I am not so sure I'd have gone this year if I was given free tickets and a ride there. Sad really, I bet being there a decade ago it would have felt magical and inspiring.

As Target mentioned, we who observe have seen this type of thing happen time and time again.

[Citizen No2]

It's what they want though, isn't it.

Just another reason to justify the divide.



Regards.

[Atlas]

EVERY TIME a movement, organization or anything "gets big" it also gets corrupted.

THE GLOBAL CORRUPTION BAROMETER
http://transparency.org.nz/images/2014/CPI2014-map-and-country-results.jpg
http://www.transparency.org/research/gcb/overview

[bearcow]

if burning man wasn't a cabal project from the get go, it didn't take very long for it to be co opted

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[Enola]

A guy who just got back from Burning Man struggles mightily to explain what Burning Man was like to a loser who's never been to Burning Man. 9/6/16
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Great parody of an alternative culture snob.

[Althena]

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[joeecho]

if burning man wasn't a cabal project from the get go, it didn't take very long for it to be co opted



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Doesn't look like it was a "cabal project" from the get go, any more then Project Avalon is a cabal.

Everything is a cabal for it's project is to have you believing it.... or a microcosm of it.

There are a number of ways of looking at the Burning Man. One is, symbolically, a 'burning' away of the illusion(s) most of us experience in the world we find ourselves in on a daily basis.

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[bettye198]

My son went to Burning Man three times with his then-wild girlfriend. He found it inspiring for his own creativity of sculpture and free thinking. When I viewed the pictures and B.M's "book"- yes a published book you can peruse a sickness lurched in my gut. While I could see the benefit of kindred souls sharing music and a sort of futuristic manner of living, the side note was one of perversion, drugs and you know what comes from both of those two things for starters. The camp is massive and one needed to ride bicycles from place to place. But the one thankful memory I have been given was during a trampoline activity, my son fell onto a rusted bike. The cut on his toe was deep. Burning Man has a set up of a tent of surgeons/doctors and nurses ( I'm sure they keep pretty busy) and his problem was resolved in short order, no payment needed. Well, that is a parent's gratitude. And thankfully he has outgrown that ridiculousness.