Comments: The annual Burning Man festival sounds a bit like a socialist utopia:
The day a bunch of goons wielding medieval weapons comes to visit one of the tech-millionaire attendees who didn't make the right friends in advance, and confiscates some of their goodies to hand out to the less lavishly equipped (after taking their own cut), is the day Burning Man will look like Socialism. Nobody is forced to bring anything, or to attend in the first place. It's from/to each according to their desires, not their means/needs.
It's also worth noting that Burning Man is kind of the opposite of "sustainable". It relies on people bringing in the products of their labor, and basic requirements of life, from the outside. It's displaying and sharing, not producing. It no more supports Marxist/Socialist ideals than does a neighborhood potluck dinner.
Posted by Schill MacGuffin at September 1, 2015 1:15 PM
I hear they got seriously infested by a biblical plague of bugs this year.
yay.
Posted by DonRodrigo at September 1, 2015 3:25 PM
Supposedly the place looks like a ghetto when the party's over as nobody cleans up after themselves.
All take and no give - the american way!
Posted by ghostsniper at September 1, 2015 6:15 PM
Missed another opportunity: get a bunch of 'em in one place, add drones with napalm and voila — real Burning Man. And woman. And anything in between.
Posted by chasmatic at September 1, 2015 10:36 PM
I am having this vision of Mark Zuckerburg strapped to the front of Lord Humungous' desert hot rod as the Burning Man attendees flee in all directions.
Posted by Mikey at September 3, 2015 10:14 AM