Burning Man | September 07, 2008 | 9 comments

Desert Wanderers Find Their Promised Land

source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122058209244302597.html

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doxie
Not exactly sure Travis of the Wall Street Journal really 'gets' it but hey its not for everyone to get is it! "Burning Man is not for the timid"!!!!

Interesting read either way...would have loved to follow him around and document his reactions to things for awhile...

so Travis wdydwyd? ....and did he just spectate? and stay concerned on money the whole time? any large vacation that lasts a week away from home is going to run you a hunk of dough.

and mind you my last comment comes from someone who is not Affluent ! Strange.. yes! Affluent..no!
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9 comments // Desert Wanderers Find Their Promised Land

  • art_lives
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      art_lives  

    • Like any product marketed and sold to the middle class, burning man attempts to fulfill a “perceived” need. The perceived need for a group experience, the need to be part of something or whatever, depending on the product. The burning man fad is marketing corporate propagandist’s tactics 101. Once an individual decides that the product, in this case “the experience of burning man” has value, BAM! Sold. The corporate propagandist’s that own and sell burning man know the demographic and psychological make-up of the people who will pay for the “burning man product” As human beings what do we really need? Shelter and some food, that is all. Everything beyond food and shelter are perceived needs.

      God bless and may your life be filled with gratitude and humility.

    • 3 years ago
  • _Davoid
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      _Davoid  
    • art_lives:

      Art Lives, have you actually been? Do you really consider Burning Man to be a marketed product? Really?

      I suggest you get in touch with what human needs really are..you know, love, nurturing, and so forth. We need a lot more than food and shelter, if we are to be functional, sociable (and dare I say happy?) creatures. Perceived need for group experience? Even the simplest of animals thrive only in groups, and we are no exception. Ever heard of a community?

      Burning Man takes money and indeed creates income for a small number of people. To lump them in with normal profit seekers is sorely misguided. As for the event itself; the vast majority of the experience is created by the attendees, none of whom profit in any material way. Nay, the profit is one of the spirit. Giving, SHARING, and- oh my- having a blast while doing so. Good god, it really sounds like you need to check it out. It's been known to have opened a few minds here and there; perhaps you'll be so lucky.

      Meh, maybe you're just a provocateur. As for the author of the article, I'm diagnosing hopelessness.

    • 3 years ago
  • doxie
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  • Affluenza
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      Affluenza  

    • I feel the piece was a conscious capitalist hatchet job to calumniate anything that doesn't fit the owners' model: to cow the citzenry to be dutiful drones and loyal consumers.

    • 3 years ago
  • doxie
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      doxie  

    • Potluck!!!!!!!!! THAT's IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

      that is how i will try to explain it from now on!!

      thank you..
      and thank you travis for keeping the numbers down next year!!

      see YOU there VoR!!

      ~d

    • 3 years ago
  • VoicesofReason
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      VoicesofReason  

    • Travis did his best to generalize about something that is at it's heart pluralistic. He stretched, he danced, then he outright lied (drugs are not available at the burn, at least not if the cops patrolling the streets have anything to say about it). In the end the burn is a 8 day potluck. Not that hard to understand.
      That said let's all thank Travis for doing his part to keep the 09' census down. See you there.

    • 3 years ago
  • MsLynn
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      MsLynn  

    • The guy did not have a clue about art in the desert and how beautiful it really can be.....PS I read this in the WSJ last Friday afternoon and gave copies to several people that had just come back from the B'Man Festival and they were blown away by his "story" yeah right $$$$$ is all he could really think about NOT ART that's for sure...........Hugs To All, Ms Lynn

    • 3 years ago
  • doxie
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      doxie  

    • oh this may explain it...i just read this tid bit..

      "The author is a long-time conservative who is currently on the staff of the Claremont Institute, a conservative think tank, was the former editor of The Harvard Salient, "one of the oldest in a movement of conservative newspapers established in the Ivy League during the beginnings of the Reagan administration, " and is currently an editor of The National Review.

      Perhaps he's a tad biased in his thinking..."
      yes perhaps

    • 3 years ago
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