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 …
The weather-related disruptions have caused suspension of the cleaning and emptying of thousands of portable toilets.
This sounds nightmarish. People will start avoiding the portable toilets and it will be even worse.
Radical inclusion now includes cholera
Rain outs like this are pretty common at these festivals. The difference here is that I guess it is a bit harder to leave and more remote? I’d say 20% of the festivals I’ve been to have had some degree of mud issue resulting in some degree of infrastructure breakdown.
Burning Man is in a dry alkali lakebed way out in the middle of nowhere. Normally it’s extremely hot and dry the entire time, the ground isn’t dirt but a very fine powder that blows everywhere. When it rains that fine powder turns into this incredibly sticky mud and it becomes extremely difficult to move. It’s quite a bit different than your standard muddy field kind of experience.
It’s almost as if 70K people shouldn’t be out there…
Why not?
Because there’s no infrastructure, leading to less than an inch of rain causing chaos? Did you read the article?
Yeah, this bit stood out for me also!
A quite apt metaphor of Man drowning in problems that can’t just be burned away.
I have friends that help out on the safety crew. I hope everyone stays safe.
I’m stuck here in the sex orgy tent…send help…
but not too quickly, take your time.
Help is cumming.
Thread is giving me oglaf comic vibes
I tried doing sex acts in water, mud and on the beach. All of them sounds kinky and sexy but in reality are uncomfortable and literally unhygenic.
We’re here to save you from the virgins, Lancelot…
Kind of ironic considering the climate protests on the way in.
How is that ironic?
A festival shooing away protestors protesting climate change and then that festival experiencing an extreme weather event because of climate change
Ah, gotcha. I missed the story. Still not strictly ironic, but I get what you meant now.
Is there a word for it? When I posted it I was hoping someone might correct me :)
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It just happened and was in the news so shouldn’t be hard to find if you have the nagging curiousities
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Not at all. That’s how it works. More climate change, more random weather events. Or if you like things simple “it rained because of climate change”.
Weather and climate are not the same thing
Yet they are not mutually exclusive.
It’s just stupid how people deny climate change because it can still rain and still get cold.
wEATheR and ClImate are nOt The same thINg
You deny climate change?
I’m mocking you for denying it.
They’re not denying it.
They’re stupid and definitely made it seem like they were, but they weren’t.
How do you thread the needle between “stupid statement that sounds like denial but isn’t” and just denial. You have a crystal ball over there?
He thought you were a climate change denier because climate change deniers often confuse weather with climate. The difference is time scale. Weather is day to day(like the daily temperature and if it rains that day), Climate is longer term (like average annual temperature or how Manny days of rain you get in a year, ect.)
Burning Mud.
Everybody there is now suddenly a Primitive Technology fan
Mudding Man
What is burning Man? I know it’s a festival of some sorts that’s done in a desert, but that’s about all I know.
What happens there?
Rich people travel 1000+ kilometres to gather around and pretend to be not rich and just like common folks! This is my understanding as someone who isn’t american.
Also drugs. Lots of drugs.
Also sex. dusty, dusty sex
Call me Boba Fett because I’m about to enter your sarlacc pit.
That’s what it is today. Use to be more underground and subversive, even if it took money to be involved.
Id say for the past ten years, it’s been a rich person’s fantasy of poor hippy lifestyle
It’s trying to recreate the glorified vision of Woodstock but with more drugs and more money
Burning Man was an amazing event when I stumbled across it on the internet in the late 90’s. I must have been 14 or 15, it used to be a real “go experience, experiment and find yourself” setting. It’s since gone the way of SXSW. It totally goes against what it was intended for.
Burning Man is a festival celebrating creative expression. No one there is pretending to not be rich
Yeah a lot of them stopped pretending.
Lol this thread is so weird. I have several friends who attend. Exactly zero of them could be considered “rich.” Artsy hippie types, sure, but lmao not rich.
idk people here think being rich means you need to own a yatch…
Watch Malcolm In The Middle, season 7 episode 1 “Burning Man”. It’ll give you a fair approximation.
Love that episode, my personal highlight, cracks me up every time.
Good stuff. Thanks
That winnebago has seen some shit.
I think they set somebody on fire every year.
They have a lottery every year for it, it’s part of the thrill. Party likes it’s your last day on earth, because it might be.
Based as all hell
Now its Muddy Man Festival
The biggest celebration of capitalism I’ve ever seen.😒
This looks like a pithy truism but it really just sounds idiotic. You ever been to, like, a trade show?
Burning man is far from perfect but it’s a step in the right direction.
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Smokin them meats, meats like a brisket
Yes absolutely, because it’s radically inclusive so anyone can come. I’m also nor a fan of the rich paying people to set up their camp, flying in for two days, and dumping tons of trash on the road back to Reno… But everything good about the festival is still there also.
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In this provocative piece, a wealthy white guy reads a Slate article and goes on a rant about how fellow wealthy white men ruin everything.
Performance art is truly the heart of Burning Man.
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You really start to wonder if the Lemmy Communists who make this comment in every thread realize that they sound like children.
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Just like this years Wacken.
that’s whack
I’ve been to burning man, but even I can’t help but laugh a little bit at this… you wanted “radical self-reliance”? You got it.
Burning money.
This is all rich peoples problems now in a pointless and drug induced search for some form of fulfillment, but just another festival chaser with money.
I don’t know whether you’re referring to just the attendees or the artists as well, but I have a group of friends presenting an installation this year (Conversations With A Squad), they’re middle-class for the most and do this out of sheer passion.
Now I cannot assure you with the utmost certainty that drugs won’t be involved at all
they’re middle-class for the most and do this out of sheer passion.
so rich people. thanks for confirming.
By “rich” I assumed bourgeoisie. But I guess everybody is somebody else’s rich people.
By “rich” I assumed bourgeoisie.
whats that anymore??
Do they burn a new man every year or do they burn the same person annually?
It’s short for “Burning Manny”. There’s one guy, Manuel Asada, and they burn him every year. It’s cool though, he’s into it.
Do you mean this guy? https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Manny_Garcia
I have so Manny questions…
All I can picture is hundreds of artists designing some of the weirdest and coolest escape vehicles we have ever seen. I hope everyone is safe and not stuck for too long, but the creative ingenuity has got to be next-level with that crowd.
