Have you been to Burning Man?  Do you understand it?

On 9/5/16 6:27 PM, Razer wrote:
"Response to raid on White Ocean zone split with some describing it as
an attempt to reclaim event from the ‘parasite class’"

The "hooligans" are lucky that the purveyors of the camp did employ an anarchistic response.

Parasite Class... A good description Marx would smile at of someone
making 60K a year to write apis or network engineer the lip syncing of
executive conference calls.

How is a developer or other engineer part of the 'parasite class'?

And 60K/yr. is very low unless you are just out of college (or a few years into skipping college), depending on location.




Damien Gayle
@damiengayle

Monday 5 September 2016 07.02 EDT


The organisers of an exclusive camp at Nevada’s Burning Man festival have denounced “hooligans” whom they accuse of raiding their camp, stealing items, gluing trailer doors shut and cutting the power.

Pershing County sheriff’s office was called to the festival to investigate after the night-time raid targeting the White Ocean camp as it hosted its “white party”, where ravers dress in white and dance all night to techno music.

Its organisers wrote on Facebook: “Guys, I think what happened last night should be known on social media … A band of hooligans raided our camp, stole from us, pulled and sliced all of our electrical lines leaving us with no refrigeration and wasting our food and glued our trailer doors shut, vandalised most of our camping infrastructure, dumped 200 gallons of potable water flooding our camp.”
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The response from festival regulars has been split, with sympathy towards the camp tempered by many who say that the “prank” on White Ocean, a closed zone funded by tech entrepreneurs, was “taking burning man back from the parasite class”.

Some or all areas of a number of camps are effectively closed except to members.


In recent years, Burning Man has transformed from an anarcho-hippie fire ritual in San Francisco into a pricey end-of-summer romp in the Nevada desert for 65,000 people. But with growth has come controversy around the impact of big money.

All of those 65-70K people have been transformed?  That's sloppy writing.


Participants at the three-decade old festival, which is based on an ethos of co-creation and mutual self-reliance, traditionally all pitch in to build the event. It is built around a radical “gifting” culture, where even strangers who wander into a camp are supposed to be served; in turn, they are expected to do the same for others.

Where strangers wander into a camp's public service area, when open, if they have one, and are often served as the camp is able and willing.  They aren't 'supposed to be served'.


But as Burning Man has become more popular, it has become seen as an annual fixture for global elites who pay others to build them exclusive camps called “plug and plays”, which allow them to swoop in, turn on and drop out for a few days before returning to corporate life.

Controversial, but hard to see how it is a big deal.  It has some benefits too.


      

      
More @Guardian UK:
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/sep/05/luxury-camp-at-burning-man-festival-targeted-by-hooligans


    

    

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