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Burning man has been too big for about a decade. It's subsumed much of indie festival culture, and replaced it with something 'too big too fail', with all the t
by WalterSear 10y ago
Burning man has been too big for about a decade. It's subsumed much of indie festival culture, and replaced it with something 'too big too fail', with all the trappings of main stream accessibility that the vandals in this article are reacting poorly too.
- bigiain 10y agoFWIW, the first time I went a bunch of long-term burner friends were all "Man, this all gotten too big and has sold out! You should have been here 5 years ago!". There were about 7,000 people there that year, 1998...
- cmurf 10y agoRepeatibility is hard. I'm in the same mountain town, two summers in a row, and it's a completely different experience. Many things are identical, in fact I'm surrounded by it. But the experience I'm having is very different. I think sometimes there's too much attachment to replicating things of the past.