Burning Man has evolved, like every other event or festival that has gotten too popular thanks to the internet. Nothing cool will ever stay cool in future. Everything becomes monetized and corporatized immediately, which is like throwing a bucket of ice water on an orgy.
Going out to the middle of the desert with a bunch of kooks has never appealed to me but I have a good friend who went to BM in the beginning and tried to explain it to me. No matter how he tried, he could never make it sound good, IMO, of course. To each their own.
Now, it’s something like 70k people(?) who each paid thousands of dollars to go somewhere and take selfies to post on Instagram. I can’t personally imagine a lower rung of hell, even without a bad weather event. Still, it’s not a gathering of leftists or climate activists. Htf would someone deduce that?
