I think the most important takeaway from Burning Man's decades-long experiment in temporary community is that it all goes to hell as soon as the billionaires show up
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@michelestrider My wife asked me something about Burning Man and I said I hadn't given it any thought since I was reading Mondo 2000.
Which is not actually true, because I always enjoy the Black Rock Radio broadcasts from Soma FM.
@linuxandyarn I haven't listened to Black Rock Radio in years. I should, but usually just go between Groove Salad and Lush.
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I think the most important takeaway from Burning Man's decades-long experiment in temporary community is that it all goes to hell as soon as the billionaires show up
When you dance with the devil, the devil doesn't change. The devil changes you. (queue the gabber music)
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I think the most important takeaway from Burning Man's decades-long experiment in temporary community is that it all goes to hell as soon as the billionaires show up
@michelestrider the impression I got in the late 90s was that it went to hell a year or two after whoever was saying it had gone to hell had first been.
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I think the most important takeaway from Burning Man's decades-long experiment in temporary community is that it all goes to hell as soon as the billionaires show up
@michelestrider May I quote you on that?
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@michelestrider My wife asked me something about Burning Man and I said I hadn't given it any thought since I was reading Mondo 2000.
Which is not actually true, because I always enjoy the Black Rock Radio broadcasts from Soma FM.
@linuxandyarn @michelestrider One of my high school teachers was a burner.
I wonder what he thinks of it now.
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@michelestrider
Yep. Followed the same trajectory as the gentrification of trendy neighborhoods:
• young artists do cool stuff
• young people doing cool stuff attracts attention
• attention attracts money
• young artists are priced out
• money chases money
• eventually billionaires arrive, ruining whatever's left@australopithecus @michelestrider oh yeah, I watched that happen to Portland over the past 25 years.
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@michelestrider May I quote you on that?
@drwho OK
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I think the most important takeaway from Burning Man's decades-long experiment in temporary community is that it all goes to hell as soon as the billionaires show up
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@TheBreadmonkey It's so true
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I think the most important takeaway from Burning Man's decades-long experiment in temporary community is that it all goes to hell as soon as the billionaires show up
@michelestrider The thing is, you can go to Burning Man and never interact with the billionaires. They might as well not be there (in every sense).
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I think the most important takeaway from Burning Man's decades-long experiment in temporary community is that it all goes to hell as soon as the billionaires show up
I saw them burn Zozobra once, back in the 1980's
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@michelestrider As I read this the live feed cut out, so I guess the Parasites have arrived.
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Yep. Followed the same trajectory as the gentrification of trendy neighborhoods:
• young artists do cool stuff
• young people doing cool stuff attracts attention
• attention attracts money
• young artists are priced out
• money chases money
• eventually billionaires arrive, ruining whatever's left@australopithecus @michelestrider
I have personally seen this happen twice in Huntsville, Alabama.
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@michelestrider The thing is, you can go to Burning Man and never interact with the billionaires. They might as well not be there (in every sense).
@adamrice @michelestrider perhaps, but the takeaway stays.
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@adamrice @michelestrider perhaps, but the takeaway stays.
@argonaut @michelestrider What I’m saying is, the experiment has not gone to hell. Maybe to heck.
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I think the most important takeaway from Burning Man's decades-long experiment in temporary community is that it all goes to hell as soon as the billionaires show up
@michelestrider i have a feeling, albeit empirical, that it is things going to hell that bring billionaires, like culture-eating moths to the fires of societal failure.
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I think the most important takeaway from Burning Man's decades-long experiment in temporary community is that it all goes to hell as soon as the billionaires show up
@michelestrider Intrinsically true. But I'd track back further still: hell goes active the second we believe that fake kindness deserves our financial support.
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I think the most important takeaway from Burning Man's decades-long experiment in temporary community is that it all goes to hell as soon as the billionaires show up
@michelestrider Pretty much on point
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I think the most important takeaway from Burning Man's decades-long experiment in temporary community is that it all goes to hell as soon as the billionaires show up
@michelestrider Recent HBO doc on this was Incredibly On The Nose about it.
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@TheBreadmonkey @michelestrider
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