Have you been to Burning Man? Do you understand it? On 9/5/16 6:27 PM, Razer wrote: > "Response to raid on White Ocean zone split with some describing it as > an attempt to reclaim event from the ‘parasite class’"
The "hooligans" are lucky that the purveyors of the camp did employ an anarchistic response. > Parasite Class... A good description Marx would smile at of someone > making 60K a year to write apis or network engineer the lip syncing of > executive conference calls. How is a developer or other engineer part of the 'parasite class'? And 60K/yr. is very low unless you are just out of college (or a few years into skipping college), depending on location. > >> >> Damien Gayle >> @damiengayle >> >> Monday 5 September 2016 07.02 EDT >> >> >> The organisers of an exclusive camp at Nevada’s Burning Man festival have >> denounced “hooligans” whom they accuse of raiding their camp, stealing >> items, gluing trailer doors shut and cutting the power. >> >> Pershing County sheriff’s office was called to the festival to investigate >> after the night-time raid targeting the White Ocean camp as it hosted its >> “white party”, where ravers dress in white and dance all night to techno >> music. >> >> Its organisers wrote on Facebook: “Guys, I think what happened last night >> should be known on social media … A band of hooligans raided our camp, stole >> from us, pulled and sliced all of our electrical lines leaving us with no >> refrigeration and wasting our food and glued our trailer doors shut, >> vandalised most of our camping infrastructure, dumped 200 gallons of potable >> water flooding our camp.” >> Dust to dust: mourning the dead at Burning Man >> Read more >> >> The response from festival regulars has been split, with sympathy towards >> the camp tempered by many who say that the “prank” on White Ocean, a closed >> zone funded by tech entrepreneurs, was “taking burning man back from the >> parasite class”. Some or all areas of a number of camps are effectively closed except to members. >> >> In recent years, Burning Man has transformed from an anarcho-hippie fire >> ritual in San Francisco into a pricey end-of-summer romp in the Nevada >> desert for 65,000 people. But with growth has come controversy around the >> impact of big money. All of those 65-70K people have been transformed? That's sloppy writing. >> >> Participants at the three-decade old festival, which is based on an ethos of >> co-creation and mutual self-reliance, traditionally all pitch in to build >> the event. It is built around a radical “gifting” culture, where even >> strangers who wander into a camp are supposed to be served; in turn, they >> are expected to do the same for others. Where strangers wander into a camp's public service area, when open, if they have one, and are often served as the camp is able and willing. They aren't 'supposed to be served'. >> >> But as Burning Man has become more popular, it has become seen as an annual >> fixture for global elites who pay others to build them exclusive camps >> called “plug and plays”, which allow them to swoop in, turn on and drop out >> for a few days before returning to corporate life. Controversial, but hard to see how it is a big deal. It has some benefits too. > More @Guardian UK: > https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/sep/05/luxury-camp-at-burning-man-festival-targeted-by-hooligans sdw
