Posted on 08/26/2011 12:18:09 PM PDT by redreno
It’s easy to dismiss Burning Man as nothing more than a bizarre hippie love-fest that takes place deep in the Nevada desert every year the week before Labor Day. But doing so misses the fact that it’s an amazingly successful enterprise--and, as such, has a thing or two to teach about how to inspire creative people and create a great product.
Since it first began 25 years ago, Burning Man has grown larger every year (if you ignore the slight dip in recession-scarred 2009). It’s grown so much that this year, for the first time ever, the organization had to cut off ticket sales early, for fear of finally hitting the 50,000-person limit authorized by its federal land-use permit. And those tickets aren’t cheap either--they now cost an average of $300 a pop.
(Excerpt) Read more at fastcompany.com ...
Maybe I could buy a lot of pops and tune into some web based, user directed robot roaming around with a webcam phone setup on the 'net from the convenience of hanging out with my dog in the backyard?
This thread needs a barf alert or something.
“And it’s amazingly safe for a town of 50,000, many of whom are partying for seven days straight”
Nothing amazing about it. Sort society for people with enough money to travel and attend, and surprise, surpirse!
No stage a free one somewhere in L.A. and see what you get.
Maybe not. There is some entity making substantial money off of this, and apparenty handle the logistics in a manner acceptable with the locals and the feds. Not an easy task.
[ “And it’s amazingly safe for a town of 50,000, many of whom are partying for seven days straight”
Nothing amazing about it. Sort society for people with enough money to travel and attend, and surprise, surpirse!
No stage a free one somewhere in L.A. and see what you get. ]
The monument to woodstock should be a national guard soldier giving an unwashed starving hippie who is sitting in their own filth a sandwich.
Money can be successfully made off of all kinds of nastiness.
Porn movie makers are doing pretty well but that doesn’t make them admirable or even people I want to hear about and oooh and aaahhh at the crud they create.
This guy, Dan Pink is selling a book inexpensively that seems to teach the principle of giving people the freedom to be creative and not try to enforce rule and regulation.
That's a little too simplistic, but it's the gist of what I gleaned from reading the article.
For all the naysayers ... those of us that have enjoyed a 'few' (too many? .. /8^) ... ) 'festivals' can appreciate this event.
A smaller version of the idea of the United States. Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
I would venture to say that one key to its success is that Burning Man is more libertarian than lefist. If it had been leftist, it would have fallen apart in a fit of self-rightousness. People would start worrying about how many blacks/gays/whoever showed up and whether the art word was sufficiently inclusive, blah, blah, and then pretty soon, no one would show up.
Instead, it’s mostly white folks, you can do whatever you want, and people like that. Sounds like folks having a good time in the desert.
It’s a giant leap from porn (freely available to all) and Burning Man, which takes an effort to access and relatively harmless.
But hey, no one can argue with another’s judgementalism.
“This thread needs a barf alert or something.”
Don’t get out much, do you?
JC
1999 called, it wants its Clinton era techno-libertarian bullshit back.
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