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[pmcd9]

Burning man has come to a close again for another year and everyone I know that was there is talking about it on Facebook. BM seems like the kind of thing I would go for, but something about that scene that rubs me the wrong way. One thing that definitely rubs me the wrong way is how they refer to whatever goes on outside of BM as "default world." I'm not sure I've ever actually heard anyone saying it aloud, but I can imagine their voice full of disgust when they say it. Like "Oh My Gohd, I can't believe we have to return to the default world tomorrow."

Is it just me are burners pretty insufferable?

[Carlos del Vaca]

I only know one person who's been to Burning Man (well, I may know more, but he's the only one who's talked about it), and he's a great guy. He doesn't go every single year, and I don't think he's as over-the-top about it as some people.

I used to think BM looked pretty cool, but lately I've started to wonder if there wouldn't be too many insufferable people there.

[KeithHernandez]

In college in Oklahoma it was impossible to get any chemical psychedelics.  We just had mushrooms and e on our black market, but I knew a dude who would go to burning man every year and bring back acid and research chemicals.  The dude that went is one of my favorite people in the world, and we would have daft punk + drug dance parties in his apartment a lot right after burning man every year.  I would really like to go sometime, but I did notice like two or three years ago it seemed to turn into a huge dub step party.  I wouldn't be so in on that.

Side note:  In college I lived at this really run down apartment complex really close to the school and the part of town people went out in.  It basically switched between hippy-ish college students (so many mushroom and weed hookups for only like 25 apartments- this is where I learned to hula hoop!) and a large collection of crack apartments.  It just swung one way or the other based on like 5 apartments.  Oh, Sergio moved out, now crack heads live in his place, then Thomas moved and crack heads moved in and etc.etc.etc.  The dude I am talking about lived on the second floor, right above the really shitty pool in the really shitty courtyard/parking lot.  We would hook up a projector and play Super Mario 1 in the pool.  That was pretty great. 

Oh, and yeah, I get kind of annoyed by like default world bullshit.  Just try not to let that ruin something for you?  Judge people based on themselves and don't group them all together, even though it is a pretty self selecting group?


Edit:  Oh, also, my dad and I would go to this thing called the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival every year from (my ages) like 15-23.  He was the only hipster type person I ever knew of who made the trip to that place.  It was a tiny town about 2.5 hours from our college- Okemah- where Guthrie was born.  I thought that was pretty dope of him, though I don't know if this is related to Burning Man?  Dude had a sense of exploration about him is maybe where I am going with this?  And that led him to Burning Man?

[wombat]

I used to think BM looked pretty cool, but lately I've started to wonder if there wouldn't be too many insufferable people there.

This is a sad thing about human nature, that it's not enough to enjoy something, you also have to feel like you're better than everyone who doesn't enjoy it.

[jaydub]

Some of my friends in college were into the Society for Creative Anachronism  (Renaissance Fair 365 days a year).  The SCA term for the rest of us is "mundanes".

[Carlos del Vaca]

(to the tune of "Waltzing Matilda")
Freaking the mundanes, freaking the mundanes
You'll come a-freaking the mundanes with me
As we sang as we walked down the sidewalk in our funny clothes
You'll come a-freaking the mundanes with me

[KeithHernandez]

That's what I do everyday tho

[wombat]

Keith is cosplaying Keith.

[pmcd9]

Some of my friends in college were into the Society for Creative Anachronism  (Renaissance Fair 365 days a year).  The SCA term for the rest of us is "mundanes".

That's what some in the artcar community call non artcars. Oh no, we are guilty of the same arrogance as burners.

[theinevitable]

Burning man really turns me off. It's like if the Gathering of the Juggalos took itself really seriously. I just can't take it.

[pmcd9]

Yeah, the Gathering of the Juggalos seems like a lot of fun. Well except for all of the shitty music of course.

[jay-ell]

I usually hear about Burning Man in the context of all the free and kinky sex that supposedly happens there. I dunno, man. Not a thing I'd be too interested in, but I guess if that's your thing. I know a few of people who go or have gone in the past, but it doesn't seem like a thing that would be worth traveling to IMHO.

[jaydub]

Other out-group names I have encountered

Geocaching: Muggles
Motorcyclists: Cagers (people who drive autos)

[jay-ell]

At the game store, every now and then someone will come in who is clearly not nerdy and I have to remind my customers, "Don't scare the norms."

[KeithHernandez]

I usually hear about Burning Man in the context of all the free and kinky sex that supposedly happens there. I dunno, man. Not a thing I'd be too interested in, but I guess if that's your thing. I know a few of people who go or have gone in the past, but it doesn't seem like a thing that would be worth traveling to IMHO.

Yeah, I understand it as that plus drugs, or at least it was 4 or 5 years ago.  I guess my biggest issue with stuff like this is that people should just live that way everyday (if that is how they want to live) instead of paying hundos and going to the desert to do it.  That said, everyone I know who goes/has gone is cool and I would go if I could ever combine both money and time.  Usually I've just got one or the other.