You'll excuse me if I'm skeptical about the vast scientific potential of free-thought exercises from a horde of half-naked Supermen.
And before you say it, yes, I'm a narrow-minded cynic who decidedly does NOT believe in the weed-inspired mantra of "If it feels good, do it." I'm convinced that our duty here on earth is to do something PRODUCTIVE with our lives rather than lounging around a unicorn petting zoo.
Everything we who have never attended the Burning Man Festival know about the festival we have learned from the media, you know, the media we have complete contempt for. Well, except for when they tell us what we want to hear.
I appreciate the first hand report from one who has been there, from a long time freeper.
Burbon Street and Vegas offer no redeeming values yet those places are culturally accepted and promoted by society both for their entertainment and economic impact.
Add creativity, engineering, and learning, remove the economics and relocate it to the desert and somehow it’s uncacceptable?
One new IDEA can make thousands of years of rote productivity obsolete.
Ideas come randomly out of nowhere. Usually when the mind is resting and/or experiencing something new. I designed a new type of sensor people now use all over the world. All because of how a wind chime reflected off a girl I was painting.
For me, that is the point of Burning Man. To see and experience things you NEVER otherwise would.
Most creative design firms now have field trips to BM for that reason.