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1. Burning Man is in Nevada 2. Technically it's not even in Nevada, it's in the Pyramid Lake Paiute Indian Reservation 3. Kind of the entire point of Burning
by uoaei 3y ago
1. Burning Man is in Nevada
2. Technically it's not even in Nevada, it's in the Pyramid Lake Paiute Indian Reservation
3. Kind of the entire point of Burning Man is that you are raising a city out of nothing and breaking it down again within the span of a couple weeks against all odds and in one of the least hospitable places on the planet. This is by design. As a participant you are given ample information and time to plan for such eventualities, they are not necessarily predictable but you definitely can and should be prepared for the worst out there. To be blunt, this is what they signed up for. It's a prepper-lite ("radical self-reliance" is one of the founding principles) kind of event. I say this as someone who really enjoyed my time there in past years -- everyone is welcome to attend if they feel up for it, but they are also expected to know what they're getting into and to carry their own weight if things get bad. Not that they will be left to die, as "civic responsibility" is another of the principles embodied by the population of Black Rock City for its duration.
Protip for interested readers: anyone calling Burning Man a "festival" outs themselves as having absolutely no idea what they're talking about and are perpetuating the kinds of narratives that contribute to the flippant and commercialized miasma that has settled around the event over the past years.
- bhhaskin 3y agoIt isn't on the Reservation. It is BLM land. Parts of the road (state route) out there are on the Reservation.
- uoaei 3y agoThat's right. I read somewhere it was held in trust by BLM for the tribe but researching again I can't tell if that specific area is part of the laws that were passed or if it just belongs to BLM outright.
- zerbinxx 3y ago[flagged]
- DirkH 3y agoThose words have meanings. Look them up it you don't understand them. They're well used in this context to get the author's point across. I dunno if I agree with the author. I've never been to Burning Man, but their word usage certainly helps me - a casual onlooker - better understand their frustration.
- zerbinxx 3y agoI wouldn’t be critiquing their choice of words if I didn’t know what they mean. In general flippant is a word that describes attitudes or actions, not a toxic death cloud.
- uoaei 3y agoMiasma used here as imagery for rhetorical effect. It really is like a toxic cloud of cultural assumptions and impositions that has choked out a lot of the folks who built the foundation of what makes Burning Man what it is, and not just some festival to wear sparkly clothes and take pictures for Instagram. Not to mention all the money that descends on the event to install shortcuts and cash grabs in an otherwise moneyless, DIY, BYOEverything space.
- zerbinxx 3y agoI understand the usage of miasma, but flippant is just not a normal modifier for that noun.