The only people who go to that dumb crap in the first place are wealthy whites, the poor and working class don't have all the money and time in the world to spend $1000's of dollars on hard drugs and time off work and traveling half way across the country to attend some "hippy" festival that hasn't actually had hippies at it since the 12th Century BC
That's why I'm happy when people aren't able to make it to Cons and Ren Fairs. Bunch of losers with more money than me spending on things I don't care about.
How dare they. I hope anyone who spends money to have fun has a bad time instead.
In defense of Ren fairs, the best part of them is the camping, and that's as cheap as you want it to be.
Everyone I’ve ever met who was a regular burning man attendee has been a solid human being with strong morals, personally and financially responsible, a career.
I think of two people in my past when I think of Burning Man.
One being my ex who got in trouble for punching his ex girlfriend AT burning man. He had to go to court and she got a restraining order against him. There were also witnesses and he almost got kicked out of school for it. He should have been kicked out of school in my opinion.
Anyway. Him and his friends were super trashy. All people who went to Burning Man.
Then there is this girl I use to work with. She was nice. She was extremely pretty. 10/10 instagram model type, not even exaggerated. She was also super late to everything. I waited two hours for her and her friend to meet up at a cafe. That was the last time we hung out. She really came off as someone who gets away with shit just because she's considered hot.
Entirely ignoring who is at burning man or why, I honestly think there needs to be a line somewhere for sympathy. If you truck yourself out into the desert and things go tits up, well, shit happens. That's the risk you took.
I say this as a person who used to ride motorcycles, rock climb, and go backpacking. If shit ever went down I wouldn't have expected any sympathy. I put myself in those risky situations, and there's just plain gotta be a line for personal responsibility.
With all that being said, when such a massive group of people continuely take the same risk over and over, it's kinda funny when they finally get bit. It's the same reason COVID denires getting COVID is funny.
Because we live in a society devoid of empathy.
Fuck your burn!
It’s not a tragedy, it’s life on the playa. Every participant knows this. The back of the ticket states that you could die out there. Part of it is survival. Radical self reliance.
These aren’t opinions, these are facts. Radical self reliance is one of the 10 principals of burning man.
Maybe also because there were protesters blockading the road towards it because of climate change and festival goers were furious about it, so this is kinda ironic
More just schadenfreude, I expect, since Burning Man has long seemed dumb and idiotic to many. So something dumb and idiotic like this happening to them feels appropriate.
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