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Never been to #BurningMan, never been sad about it.

Let's just say: no artist could create an installation that more effectively destroys the internal logic of the whole fucking thing, than driving hundreds of miles to bulldoze a climate protest so you can party in the middle of the desert, in the same summer where hundreds were murdered & poisoned by smoke in #Lahaina & #Yellowknife & across the #PacNW.

Edit to add link - https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/burning-man-2023-traffic-jam-protest-highway-18334916.php

Climate protesters used a barricade to block a Nevada highway, triggering a traffic jam during the opening day of Burning Man 2023 on Aug. 27. The blockage was eventually cleared when a ranger used a patrol vehicle to run over the barricade. The chairman of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe, a sovereign nation whose land the highway passes through, said in a statement that rangers responded to protesters blocking state Route 447 around 1 p.m. after a line of traffic with Burning Man attendees stretched for several miles.
@spacehobo@teh.entar.net I have a lot of friends who take great joy in #BurningMan. To me it always seemed a car-centric sun-worshipping club for rich white tech bros, and I've never made my distaste for the thing secret. But watching the Nevada cops just roll their giant war- boy trucks through a climate protest blockade so people can drive there better... Well, let's just say that it's rekindled my feelings of intense discomfort about the whole enterprise. Aug 28,2023, 11:15 - Edited Aug 28, 11:16 v - @ 13 12- & 1
Seven Circles said the purpose of the protest was “to draw attention to capitalism’s inability to address climate and ecological breakdown” and included three demands, including banning the use of private jets and single-use plastics at Burning Man and for the organization’s leaders to “admit that infinite growth is incompatible with sustaining the Earth’s systems.” Phoenix wrote that five protesters were cited and released, including one from California.
#lahaina #BurningMan #Yellowknife #PacNW

Safe to say, Burning Man has utterly jumped the shark.

I knew some cool people who went, but I don't think anyone remotely sensitive to what is going on in the world will be going to #BurningMan next year. So bye-bye to #FOMO on that one.

#BurningMan #fomo

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