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Yes it is disheartening to see that you can pay for a "pampered" BM experience...

But is it possible that maybe the spectator-types coming in are in SOME WAY being influenced positively? That perhaps a spark of creativity happens, maybe they go back to their hometowns and dayjobs with a new idea of how life can be... I mean, certain events like BM are like "cultural mixers", in which the lower common denominator gets a chance to blend in with the higher vibrations/creativities and HOPEFULLY get a kick in the ass towards a better reality.

Let's just hope.

Geekster:
> Burning Man is now the career of many people. It is people's bread and butter. That results in a completely different aspect to the thing than when it was something fun to do in the desert.

So true.

I dropped by the regionals tent and met the leader of one regional who told me that his _goal_ was to make enough money off his regional that he didn't have to have another job.

The BMORG is now making money off of the event (they won't tell us how much), and they're franchising this idea.

> My personal opinion is that simply lifting the firearms ban would go a long way to putting the event back on the right track

*amen*

Let the guns back in, and get rid of the DPW. What if there were no roads and no center camp built? The people would once again have to build their own city. In that sense, everyone would be forced to participate. If you want a road - mark off an area. If you want street signs - make one.

"My personal opinion is that simply lifting the firearms ban would go a long way to putting the event back on the right track "

HAHAHA! Praise the lord & pass the ammo!

And some people will take their servants wherever they go. How about next year, we show those celebrities what it's really like to be pampered, and make them wear pampers all week long!

Let's make 'Celebrity Camp' & designate it as the new target range after the firearms ban is lifted. Whoever survives can have the honor of being incinerated by the SRL jet engine.

And what is wrong with pampering! I have lived as an Urban Survivalist and believe me the experience puts chills down my spine years after I have been living indoors and eating off of plates. I still run on Survival mode when the air is changing, my water gets low and I must run to the store.
I wish I could simply fly up to Reno, rent a good sized RV and have everything put together by the time I hit BRC. What's the matter with a few servants? I have been a servant myself, I know if I had a servant I would treat him or her too good. Instead of getting a pampering next year I must drive a very scary long ways, hope to remember the tickets and prepare the Doppleganger suit to the best of my ability. While I am there I assure you I will live at any sober camp that I find and pray I don't indulge, even accidently, in anything stronger than coffee. Sex is open for suggestions.
Yeah I want to be pampered, yeah I'm a virgin so what? the whole experience sounds frightening and exciting. I hope I can weather Burning Man with as much comfort as possible, if there are individuals who can afford more comfort than my meager existence I hope I can meet up with them and they share their bounty. Burning Man is an extravagance by simply purchasing a ticket, this doesn't include anything except an Idea of what could happen, what will happen and what one wishes will or will not happen.
Go ahead and crucify me now for not being there, for being a Republican and standing up for the pampered celebrity. Do you understand what they endure in a day of shooting? maybe if you stood around in the sweltering heat taking and retaking a stupid scene while dressed wearing a ridiculous costume In Los Angeles's Skid Row as opposed to Burning Man you might begin to feel otherwise.
I was there in L.A on location for a film studio for 12.5 hours keeping the public away from famous people, the crew in general and all four hundred extras. Yesterday by the time all of our day was finished all of us, from the Director and cast to the security guards and technicians were incredibly tired. By the industry standards this was considered a short day however; the day was still long, hot and boring.
Yeah yesterday we needed some sort of pampering, some more so than others. If the Burning Man experience requires than I am to be miserable while I am there due to poverty, The Elements, lack of sleep because of a bad sleeping arrangement and starvation count me out.
If I could give you my experience I would. You can't understand because, Like A Virgin, you were not there.
Leave me and Madonna alone, we have had a hard day.

there was a similar camp at 8:15 and B (betw. B and C) - with several *enornous* RVs, filled-up with apparently rich people, and a crew in tents (several identical, brand-new tents), probably for the organizers / crews. they were my neighbors. the big RV arrived on thursday night.

people in that camp came from various places, and they would not want to explain how they knew each-other. now i can see why! they did not seem to really belong there, and they were always clean of dust, showering several times a day in their RVs.

so i think that there was several of those camps on the playa this year.

> Leave me and Madonna alone, we have had a hard day.

you mean, britney :)

www.youtube.com/watch

(PS: that video is acted, but still excellent)

that sucks. no, really.. somebody should be shot for tthat.

>>And when you're dressed up as a bunny and riding around on your bike, doesn't matter what your economic background is, on the playa we are peers. And that is one thing I love about burning man.<<

No; if your money is still good, then "we" aren't "peers" at all - your money is still good, so you're better and better off than anyone who is paying lip service to some kind of vestigial "ideal".

If what you want is to be rich, you don't have to go to the alkali to make it happen. If you want to be something other than a vacationer, you can leave your prestige at home.

If what you want is to serve as complimentary eye-candy for the rich, you'll always have Burning Man.