One of the things that I am going to do when I retire is go to Burning Man. It is an event, kind of what was once called a happening. It is mostly happy hippies and strange types who create art in the middle of the Nevada desert. You can only go if you show you can survive for a week in the desert and will not be allowed in without enough food and water.
It always sounds like a great experience and I think it would be a great thing. I want to buy an RV and drive cross country to get there. I would like to set up a generator and some amps and host a blues Jam for the entire week.
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Sounds good! But Your only partially right, it’s an event/happening but it’s more than happy hippies and artists attending and it’s about self-sufficiency.
The event has attracted nearly every demographic known to our society: scientists, teachers, politicians, celebs, healers, medics, foreign diplomats, cooks, crooks, fuckos, inventors, rangers, mothers, brothers, ravers, outdoor-enthusiasts, hedonists, wasps, dinks, pyrotechnics, barbie haters, loners, stoners, geeks and freaks… etc.
I hope you go one day. The experience cannot be described until you see it for yourself.
I’ll keep an eye out for you.
I am interested in it as an expression of creativity. The self sufficiency might just be one aspect of it, even if it is the expressed intent.
I think “happening” is a good description: An experience which is elevated to art. This is how I see it, anyway, from reading the descriptions scattered around the web.
I didn’t mean to limit it to one group that way. Hippies, by the way, are a good thing.