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Originally Posted by cockerpunk
you can't have a profoundly transformative experience on your own couch. you have to go out and do uncomfortable things, things you've never done before, things that make you uncomfortable, unsafe, etc if you want to have a profound experience. it doesnt just show up on your doorstep and you unbox it.
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This has got to be the funniest goddamned thing I've read on the internet all day. I have to thank you for the laugh.
Driving one's motor home out into the middle of the desert only to park it amongst 80,000 other people doing the same in the world's schittiest RV park is in no way "profound", nor is it anything close to a "profoundly transformative experience". Anyone who actually believes it is is just a part of the joke.
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Originally Posted by speeder
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?  |
Denis, like pretty much everyone else (but one) in this discussion gets it.
This whole thing has devolved into the "usual suspects" (who likewise ruin everything else they touch, re Sturgis and similar gatherings) desperately trying to experience something "profound" or "transformative". They think they can just drive their RV right up to it, buy a ticket and "experience" it. And they go home thoroughly convinced they have... because they never really have, and never really will...
They can do whatever they want, of course. I will always champion their right to do that. I love the fact that most probably have a good time. But, at this point in its development, for anyone to call their experience at BM "profound" or "transformative" is just laughable. And I reserve the right to laugh at them, and have my own good time doing so.