[theDentist]

Anarchist Bums

[meowmeow]

hmmmm. Sounds so...mainstream.

[wideawake]

What Burning Man is all about: snobby bohemians have decided that getting drunk, stoned and laid at a “countercultural arts festival” in the desert at the end of the summer is somehow different from and superior to “bourgeois” people getting drunk, stoned and laid during “spring break” on the beach.

[Yo-Yo]

Pitty when the buzz wears off early.

[Drew68]

But many originated from self-described former attendees complaining that Burning Man has been spoiled by crowds of "yuppies" and "frat boys" mostly interested in doing drugs and ogling naked participants.

Of course it was going to get spoiled once people learned that you can find drugs and naked women there! There's nothing surprising here.

Once a cultural happening becomes mainstream, the original supporters feel like their little secret is out of the bag. It isn't fun or "special" anymore.

[madprof98]

The event has become such a mainstay of the city's cultural calendar that Burner parents in 2005 unsuccessfully urged the San Francisco school board to postpone the first day of school so their children could attend.

Why not? They could make up the days by having school on Christmas.

[martin_fierro]

The alleged torching of the wood-and-neon figure by a San Francisco performance artist has cast light on the disillusionment of many who feel the annual celebration of radical self-expression has lost touch with its spontaneous, subversive roots.

Anarchists HATE to be knocked off schedule.

[protest1]

Burning man festival? What a bunch of heathens

[muawiyah]

Just not all that creative or inspirational anymore. They should give it up.