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> like a music festival campground Every generation needs a Woodstock. Burning man is not real enough.
by DenisM 6y ago
> like a music festival campground
Every generation needs a Woodstock. Burning man is not real enough.
- saalweachter 6y agoThe tricky part of ephemeral culture is keeping it ephemeral while still allowing it to reoccur often in new forms, and not just having a crystalized form of spontaneity that future generations are supposed to appreciate in the correct way.
- Finnucane 6y ago>Every generation needs a Woodstock A massively failed capitalist project that leaves behind an enormous mess?
- kempbellt 6y agoYes, actually. The ability for people to make a mess on occasion, for whatever reason, is an essential freedom to be cherished and fought for. Every generation needs an act of rebellion. It's a sort of fundamental law of nature, as a right of passage in a way.
- aporetics 6y agoThe organizers of Woodstock knew they weren’t going to profit, and they did it anyway. They also knew that crowd control was going to be a problem; instead of hiring police, they brought in people from a commune who were used to doing crowd control for large peaceful gatherings.
- dehrmann 6y agoThen there was Altamont. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altamont_Free_Concert#Security https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altamont_Free_Concert#Security