I'm not at Burning Man now, but I've been there four times - '97, '99, '00, and '07. Back in those days I was working tech jobs and it was a nice break from my cubicle. The weather there, however, was always crazy.

I think it was 2000, the first year they burned the temple. Intense winds blew the flames towards the crowd, and we fled back, tripping over the parked bicycles. Then came pouring rain, and as I was riding my bike away the mud stuck inches thick to the tires, making them heavier and heavier while the brakes scraped the mud off the sides, slowing me even further. Eventually I was struggling to push the bike into the wind, soaking and freezing, wishing for my warm, dry cubicle...

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"We've built a different kind of society here," a Burning Man true believer tells me.

You mean one where human beings starve in a cattle feedlot? (Think about it. At this point, that's not just mud everyone is wading through.)



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tired: Burning Man
wired: Climate Protester Blockade
inspired: Climate Blockade

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