Here's the beauty of the great Burning Man Cult... It's an un-cult.

You can read into it whatever you want. You can take away from it whatever you want. It means nothing and everything.

Maybe that's what those rich fucks think at the Bohemian Grove - but I doubt it.

I, and many, picture the whole thing as more of a Buddhist sand mandala - a meditation on the ephemeral nature of life. We build things up yet nothing lasts forever. And it happens every year in that week up to Labour Day. We celebrate and we mourn sooooooo very many things, including that the festival can't continue and we must decompress and return to the "real" world where hugs are rare.

I attended 1999-2008. I was always a skeptic and truther, but in 2015 I started to get deep-woke to every conspiracy I could find. Now knowing what I know I would have noticed many things at Burning Man, SF, NYC, and professional animation and live action productions. Actually understanding the "game", maybe I would have been a better employee, or worse.

50k people within a pentagon fence 1 mile on each side! My city of Windsor has 200k covering half this county. For 1 week it's the 3rd largest city in Nevada.

365 x 80 = 29,200 - So most people don't have 30k days in their lives. With 50k people, a number almost to large to really grasp, many "celebrating" excessively, and with lots of climbing etc, it's a wonder that so few die each year. And many people get seriously injured. The desert is a harsh environment. And there are rapes. And the police and many agencies are there to exploit the event for money and other things. And then there's all the Silicon Valley corporate money and their peoples and culture. There are hippies and witches and wickans and such, and then I'm guessing there are Satanists, etc. Also the rules get much worse every year.

Of course there are darker sides to Burning Man, but there are much much much more profound good sides to it. To delve into that would take pages.