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.
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.
I'm stuck here in the sex orgy tent.....send help........
but not too quickly, take your time.
We're here to save you from the virgins, Lancelot...
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.
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.
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.
The "news" is bullshit. I've got friends there right now and they're fine. A little muddy and wet but nobody is in danger.
Burning Mud.
Everybody there is now suddenly a Primitive Technology fan
Burning Man turning into Fyre Festival. Time is a circle.
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.
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.
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
Watch Malcolm In The Middle, season 7 episode 1 "Burning Man". It'll give you a fair approximation.
I've come around. Us internet dwellers should take it easy on the judgment and cynicism about this festival.
People take the internet too seriously these days. Let the festival people have fun.
Now its Muddy Man Festival
Who would think an old lake bed in the middle of a flash flood prone desert might be an issue
More like "Drowned Man" this year.
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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