The Vanishing Idealism of Burning Man

Re:The Vanishing Idealism of Burning Man by fiter on Thursday August 23, 2018 @02:40PM (#17829625)

Some things you can only reasonably do once a year, and I think it'd be a disservice to them to not do some planning. I like to think of it like a harvest festival: we've worked all year, let's enjoy some of the fruits of our labor.

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Re:The Vanishing Idealism of Burning Man by maerF0x0 on Thursday August 23, 2018 @02:51PM (#17829689)

But it would be like judging people who work in the field, spending the entire year on the centerpiece and then burning it to the ground after the festival.

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Re:The Vanishing Idealism of Burning Man by fiter on Thursday August 23, 2018 @03:04PM (#17829764)

I think there's a bit more made than what's burned, but I believe we can agree that you can also think of it like a sand mandala[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_mandala

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Re:The Vanishing Idealism of Burning Man by c22 on Friday August 24, 2018 @10:33AM (#17835131)

All art, like all things, is ephemeral. Burning Man just makes this explicit.

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