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                                 September 10, 2007
                                 November   5, 2007



What "Burning Man" actually
is, is a real event that takes
place in the real world.

If the organization that runs it is
remarkable for anything it' s an odd
pragmatism about it's idealism.


E.g. buying and selling is forbidden,
except that there are ice sales, and
there's that coffee house down at
Center Camp.

It may be all about
"radical self-expression",
except that to keep the
event going they make any       And it often strikes
promises they have to the       me that you have more
various authorities with        personal freedom at
fingers in the pie.             the Folsom Street Fair
                                in SF, in some respects.

                                   There was this motorized
                                   cartoon of two guys butt
                                   fucking that apparently
                                   caused some consternation
                                   at Burning Man, but at
                                   Folsom Steet it was barely
                                   remarkable.

                                      And guys giving each other
                                      blow jobs out in the street
                                      would not be shrugged off
                                      at Black Rock.



I've been hearing people say
"Burning Man is over" for well
over ten years, but it remains
an event where interesting           It also remains an
things happen --                     event with lots of      (The kids still
                                     idiot ravers.           have trouble
                                                             cleaning up
                                                             after themselves,
                                                             the needle has
                                     As well as lots of      been stuck on
                                     people gushing          their record for
                                     about radical           over a decade,
                                     life-changing           and they can't
                                     insights...             imagine there's
                                                             anyone who doesn't
                                     (who I must say         want to hear it
                                     I've never              anymore.)
                                     understood, even
                                     allowing for
                                     whatever drugs
                                     they were on).

                                         FIRST_THROUGH_THE_FIRE



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