- For his 50th birthday, Jim Tananbaum, chief executive officer of Foresite Capital, threw himself an extravagant party at Burning Man, the annual sybaritic arts festival and all-hours rave that attracts 60,000-plus to the Black Rock Desert in Nevada over the week before Labor Day. Tananbaum’s bash went so well, he decided to host an even more elaborate one the following year. In 2014 he’d invite up to 120 people to join him at a camp that would make the Burning Man experience feel something like staying at a pop-up W Hotel. To fund his grand venture, he’d charge $16,500 per head.
Cumol I'd be interested to here what you have to say though, the article finishes with one of the people on the board for BM talking about the all inclusiveness idea they try to promote. I can't see it mattering much if they are in a private campsite. Just like staying at a gated resort in another country you miss out on a lot of opportunities to experience the culture.
Radical inclusion means that everyone is welcome. We had a HUGE discussion about radical inclusion in the Israeli community. Partially because people were asking what would happen if we have massive amounts of "Arsim" coming in. It is not an easy discussion. Would you radically include a Nazi? Somebody who ideologically wishes for your death? Fact is, a burn is an amazing place to let people from all classes, races, ideologies meet in a politically neutral area. I was the only arab between 3000 jewish burners and I felt that I did have a huge impact on the people I met. On the other side, people who do not respect the rest of the 10 principles are not welcome. In the case of the rich camps they lack participation and de-commodification. Putting up a gated community is against the 10 principles. Participation goes both way. You participate in other things and let others participate in whatever you are doing. Its not about radical inclusion in the end. I don't think that the principles should be changed. Keeping them the way they are now lets people discuss them and actually think about them, which might even transfer into their day to day life.
Israel is known for its psytrance scene. Doing illegal psytrance parties (called "nature" parties) is something very common and there are dozens of those every weekend. I love those parties, except that most of them are a bunch of bros taking acid on a Friday night, drinking heavily, destroying nature,leaving loads of shit behind and not caring about it. The weird thing is, they don't feel ashamed about this. Quite contrary, they feel proud that they were able to do this mess and get away with it. As if they were smarter than the rest of people in this matter. This is a social trait that is very common in Israel, no idea where it originated from...
Sounds like end of burn bro's, shirt cockers, playa pissers, moopers and the like to me.