You have to laugh … I remember Glastonbury, up to my knees in mud - it’s all part of the fun. Having said that, it’s unlikely turn into a survival situation in a field in Somerset, so not really that comparable …

  • @Duamerthrax
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    331 year ago

    That’s what it is today. Use to be more underground and subversive, even if it took money to be involved.

    • @Potatos_are_not_friends
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      321 year ago

      Id say for the past ten years, it’s been a rich person’s fantasy of poor hippy lifestyle

      • @DoctorTYVM
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        221 year ago

        It’s trying to recreate the glorified vision of Woodstock but with more drugs and more money

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        Except, it’s not really about a lifestyle because nobody’s lifestyle involves living permanently or even semi-permanently in a dry lake bed. A hippy lifestyle might be living on a self-sufficient communally managed farm, or something. But, strip it down to its core and burning man still involves people traveling in from elsewhere, depending on limited supplies they brought in from elsewhere to spend a week in a place they couldn’t possibly live.

        So, maybe it’s a temporary art exhibit in the middle of nowhere so people can feel more free to express ideas and perform activities that they can’t in their boring 9-5 lifestyles. Which is fine, I guess… but it only makes it seem even more like cosplay. If you really want to live that way, then be that person the rest of the year. Don’t be yourself for a week and then hide your true self the other 51 weeks of the year.