@Decad3nce oh, I'm not claiming any goal. I'm simply saying what they do; I'm not going to speculate about why they do what they do.
I mean, I could, but I'm holding off on it :)
Yes, there are folks attending the event that are jerks. And a lot of others at the event emphatically call them out, and there's a general social norm in the community that calls them out.
It's wrong to judge the whole thing by a few jerks that the norms of the event actively reject, though.
@volkris @Decad3nce Bingo. Conflating the Burn being (obviously) affected by climate change with the Burn being a meaningful *cause* of climate change is spectacularly dumb. And universalising the experience of rich wankers is ignorant. Nobody laughed harder at the idea of Diplo and Chris Rock trudging down gate road than the other 70,000 of us there.
Right but given the reporting over the years I can understand why people think that Burning Man is nothing but rich wankers these days.
People who don't hear anything other than the reports about the rich people there won't realize that there is so much more to it, which is a bit unfortunate, and I'm not sure how to respond to that other than pushing back a bit when it comes up.
@volkris @Decad3nce Yeah, I know–hence my Gell-Mann amnesia effect comment earlier. Really highlights the abysmal quality of The Discourse in general.