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Check this out,

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...ich-parasites-at-utopian-burning-man-festiva/

Revolution against 'rich parasites' at utopian Burning Man Festival as 'hooligans' attack luxury camp
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An aerial view of the Burning Man festival

6 SEPTEMBER 2016
It is supposed to be a utopian vision of peace and love but this year's Burning Man Festival has been marred by "hooligans" carrying out a "revolution against rich parasites".

The festival plays out each year in Nevada's Black Rock Desert where 70,000 people build a city in a week, burn a giant wooden effigy of a man, and then restore the arid playa to its original state.

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In recent years it has become popular with Silicon Valley millionaires, and billionaires. Luxurious so-called "plug-n-play" camps have sprung up which use hired staff like cooks, builders and security, and allow international jetsetters to drop in for quick visits.

Many traditional "Burners" claim that is a betrayal of the spirit of "radical self-reliance" that is a cornerstone of the festival, which began in 1986.

As anger boiled over one camp called White Ocean, which hosts high profile DJs on a state-of-the-art stage, became the focus of anger.



The camp first made an appearance at Burning Man three years ago and its founders included the British DJ Paul Oakenfold and the son of a Russian billionaire.

While the camp was holding a party at which revelers listened to techno music it was attacked by vandals who flooded it with water and cut power lines.



In a dismayed post on Facebook camp leaders said: "A very unfortunate and saddening event happened last night at White Ocean, something we thought would never be possible in our Burning Man utopia.

"A band of hooligans raided our camp, stole from us, pulled and sliced all of our electrical lines leaving us with no refrigeration and wasting our food, and glued our trailer doors shut.

"They vandalised most of our camping infrastructure and dumped 200 gallons of potable water flooding our camp."

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The camp leaders said they felt like there had been an effort to "sabotage us from every angle" because "some feel we are not deserving of Burning Man".

They said: "We actually had someone from the Burning Man organisation tell us 'It makes sense that you have been sabotaged as you are a closed camp and not welcoming'."

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But leaders of the White Ocean camp said their reputation was unfair because they feed hundreds of other campers every day and have embraced other Burners with "open hearts and immense love"

They said: "We will absolutely not let this pathetic violation stop what we came here to do. We came here to unite people through music and love.

"We can make these foolish acts of hate as minuscule as a particle of dust on our beloved playa." Deputies from the local Pershing County Sheriff's Office went to the camp to assess the damage and are investigating.



Many festival-goers were outraged that the peaceful nature of the event had been undermined.

Elena Serdiouk, a Burner from San Francisco, told the Reno Gazette-Journal: "This is evil. This should not happen at Burning Man. This is supposed to be about love, happiness, sharing, giving and appreciating.

"It is unbelievable that there are angry people here."

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But others supported the attack, saying it was time to "take back" the festival.

Tony Wichowski, a Burner, said: "And so the revolution has begun. Taking Burning Man back from the parasite class, back from the electronic dance music tourists. Taking Burning Man back for the people. This wasn't much but it's a great start."

Danielle Palmer, another Burner, accused the camp of having "paid staff and bouncers". She said: "You're a closed camp and not very welcoming. I got yelled at for coming to close to your 'gates'.

"We know you hire people in to cook and do other things. Feeding friends of your paid campers does not count as feeding Burners."
 

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This is great news. While the 8 day, $400 ticket or $190 low income ticket may still be too expensive for most here on STP. These plug and play camps are fucking ridiculous and should have been destroyed and deterred much sooner. While its not uncommon for the regular attendees to spend well over $1k to travel, create art, get a ticket, supplies and food. Atleast the participants still adhere to the 10 principles of BM.

These plug and play camps are ultra wealthy elitists who pay others to construct private communities with air conditioned shelters, pre decorated bikes, fully built art cars. There are paid bartenders, chefs, models /escorts, concierges and DJs that cater to the every whim of these rich elitist assholes. For many here $1k seems so expensive; which is how much of the 65k participants at BRC feel about spending $30k++. Many fly into NV88 and are picked up on golf carts by servants. They dont build or prepare anything. They show up, eat lobster and steak and then chabge into their playa clothes to start partying.

When Mark Zuckerberg attended then spent millions to add cell phone towers to handle the bandwidth so burners can update their FBs; i knew there was a visible change in the event. In 2014 i remember being outraged when my cell phone rang in my tent.

I am proud of a few hooligans fighting back agsinst the wealthiest 1%. If we can get the 99% in the default world to do something similar our real world society may have a redistribution of wealth. #feelthebern #berningman
 
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"It is unbelievable that there are angry people here."

Really? Maybe you should use some of that money, that you obviously have too much of, and buy a fucking clue. There are angry people everywhere, it's a small side effect of the haves taking from the have-nots at every opportunity without a thought to the reality that 'there may be angry people here'. Oh shit, they ruined food for the rich that they could never afford for themselves. I'm sure the guilt of what they've done will haunt them the rest of their days. How dare they take a stand against those with means! Who do they think they are - actual human beings with a mind or some type of rudimentary thought process. THE AUDACITY!
 

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@Grubblin Maybe you should read more carefully or get a fucking clue yourself. I never said that, it is from the article I posted. Dilhole.
 
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I wasn't referring to you. I was referring to the person who said it originally in the article. I just didn't quote the whole article.
 

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Personally Im big on people doing what ever the fuck they want and it just seems to be sheer jeleousy. The real reason why this is utterly retarded is because thse poor rich sods are totally missing the point. If I could travel the world going to 5 star hoterls, I wouldn't, that sounds fucking boring. Truly, an adventure can not be bought, it must be earned. So why go out to the middle of the fuking desert to live basicaly in the middle of a city?

That being said, I don't see why people would have a problem with it, if the rich think they are haveing a good time being served by others, by all means let them. That means someone is making a living catering to their bullshit.
I neither want to be rich, nor have a problem with others being rich. To each his own.
 
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I've never been and don't plan on it, but my understanding is that narcissism, social media, and $$$ have changed the spirit of the event and undermined is core principles. It has become a destination for people who don't have respect or understanding for the event, frat boys and rich snobs. No longer alternative, it is mainstream and that's never going to be cool with the old guard, but it's unavoidably how it's going to be. Just another spot for folks with $ to post up selfies and videos clips of their vacuous selves and fake personas to prove to the world how well traveled and free they are.

Anyone who isn't about practicing radical inclusion and radical self reliance or the excercise orf creating temporary intentional communities of radical self expression and personal freedom should be barred charged a fee that is equal to the ratio of their net worth to the net worth/ income to that of the average American. Super-rich are bringing classism and exclusion into an event that was meant to be fundamentally opposed to this. No??

Most summer events and festivals have become bullsjit anyway it's hundreds of dollars to get into about anyone of them. How many can actually afford this shit?

Article of fancy camp:
http://www.thisisinsider.com/burnin...-for-celebrities-like-model-suki-waterhouse-7

To be fair some are giving back a good amount too and I'm sure the quality of art installations improves every year as the money comes in:

http://www.rgj.com/story/life/arts/...lped-burning-man-purchase-fly-ranch/87394028/
 

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It became that because it really always was that underneath. Hip bullshit breads hip bullshit. It's just being more honest now.
 

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