A lot of people work in order to live on their vacations.
This has to be one of the more depressive sentences I've read.
More and more I find myself being really glad that I work in software, where flexible working hours and companies that try to offer something to their employees (because there's actual competition) are more common than in many other fields I guess.
Re:The Vanishing Idealism of Burning Man
by beaconstudios on Friday August 24, 2018 @06:36AM
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> They say things like they're "home" when they're at a burn, and they literally get depressed for a week back in the "default world".
That's probably the MDMA comedown, to be honest.
Re:The Vanishing Idealism of Burning Man
by peterwwillis on Friday August 24, 2018 @10:08AM
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Not exactly. It's a different kind of chemical comedown, similar to what's called "drop" in the bdsm world. People get so excited about finally doing what they love with people who accept them, and then the actual excitement of doing those things spins off lots of natural chemical highs. When they have to leave they're both depressed in general that they have to leave those things/people behind, and then also have a drop off of those natural "high" chemicals. It's common for people who leave non-drug-related conferences or weekend-long parties to be affected by it, for up to a week or more.
The fact that these people seem completely incapable of understanding how to live the life they want more than 1 week a year is astounding. If you want to be naked, spin fire, drink and do drugs with your friends while listening to mixes of house and world music, get a back yard with a tall fence and go to town.