{"id":2024704,"date":"2023-09-07T14:20:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T18:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-burning-man-became-uncool\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T14:24:59","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T18:24:59","slug":"how-burning-man-became-uncool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-burning-man-became-uncool\/","title":{"rendered":"Burning Man&#8217;s Loss of Coolness"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhow-burning-man-became-uncool%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2024704&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Rise and \u200bMainstreaming of Burning Man<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This week, the Burning Man festival \u2013 a convocation of large groups of\u200b men and women seeking sex, drugs, rock and roll,\u200b and other\u200d forms \u2063of hedonistic bliss \u2013 was flooded. It seems that a half\u200d inch of rain swamped the event, which takes place in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, turning the dust to deep and sticky\u2063 mud. The\u200b images \u2064of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-burning-man-became-uncool\/\" title=\"Burning Man's Loss of Coolness\">barely-clad\u2063 neo-hippies\u200d struggling<\/a> \u200bto walk through the muck \u2062spread like \u200cwildfire across the internet; even the White House was forced to acknowledge that it was \u2063monitoring\u200c the situation. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For a huge swath of\u200d Americans, all of this was simply amusing. But the rise and mainstreaming of\u200b Burning Man is a far more interesting \u200dstory \u2064than its pathetic possible demise. Burning Man was founded in 1986, when some \u200chippie types gathered at the beach in San\u200c Francisco to burn\u2062 a \u2064nine-foot-tall\u2064 wooden man. Over time, the \u200dbonfire became larger \u2062and larger, until eventually it moved to Nevada, where it has been located ever since. Each year, 100,000 people head out to the middle of the desert to participate in events\u200d ranging from impromptu art exhibits to\u2063 orgies and mass\u2064 drug use. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3>The Principles of Burning Man<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Radical inclusion: No \u200dprerequisites exist\u200c for participation in our community.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Acts of gift \u200cgiving: Burning Man \u2063is\u2064 devoted to acts of gift giving.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Unfortunately, without some form of mutuality, giving alone cannot form the basis of a functioning \u200bsociety, even temporarily. \u200bAll of\u200c which means that\u200b Burning Man features social pressure\u200b to ostracize free-riders \u2013 \u200ba tragic violation of the radical\u2063 inclusion principle.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Radical self-expression: Radical self-expression cannot be \u2063defined by anyone other\u2063 than the\u200b individual\u200b or a collaborating group.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Civic\u200b responsibility: Burning \u2064Man calls for\u2062 civic\u2064 responsibility, which encroaches on\u2064 the unlimited right to self-expression.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Immediacy: Immediacy \u2063is the most \u2063important touchstone of value in our culture.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But Burning Man also calls for the community to clean up after ourselves, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-lawmakers-move-to-block-crt-training-in-military\/\" title=\"GOP lawmakers move to block CRT training in military\">runs directly counter<\/a> to the promise of immediacy.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/show\/the-ben-shapiro-show\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">All of \u2062this would \u2062be sheer countercultural nonsense, except for one perverse fact: the counterculture has now become the culture. This accounts for the fact that Burning Man now seems\u2062 tired and played out, less transgressive than wearied. The age\u200d of Burning Man attendees has increased over\u200d the past\u200b decade (average age in 2013 was 32,\u2064 compared to 37 just nine years later); so \u200chas the average income (in 2006, 14% of Burners listed their personal\u2063 income at above $100,000, compared to 27.4% by 2016). Influencers now show up at Burning Man to sell \u200cPopeye\u2019s Spicy Chicken; Elon Musk and Paris Hilton and Mark Zuckerberg have shown up. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And\u2063 herein lies the problem for the broader American culture. Our elite class used to be inculcated \u2064in the same set of baseline values \u200das \u201cnormal\u201d Americans: John \u2064D. Rockefeller\u200c was a regular churchgoer; so\u2062 was Cornelius \u200dVanderbilt. Today, our elites participate in drug-fueled\u2064 binges in the desert \u2013 \u2063or at least wish to \u2063appear as though they do.\u2063 Throughout\u200b the \u200d1930s, even the poorest Americans \u2062aspired to dress well, wearing suits even \u200con the breadlines. Today, even the \u200brichest Americans dress as though they shop at\u2064 Salvation Army.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When \u2062elites \u2062promulgate countercultural garbage\u2063 that \u2062eats at the \u2062roots of fundamental societal institutions, societal bonds\u200c dissolve. Ironically, that dissolution occurs first at the lowest rungs \u2063of the income ladder: as Charles Murray\u200c points out, \u201cThe belief that being \u2064a good American involved behaving in certain kinds of ways, and that the nation itself relied upon\u200d a certain\u2064 kind of people in order\u2064 to succeed, had \u2063begun \u200bto\u200d fade and\u200c has not revived.\u201d In \u200cfact, those who live out lives \u2064of\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5-reasons-free-speech-is-critical-to-americas-continued-survival\/\" title=\"5 Reasons Free Speech is Critical to America\u2019s Continued Survival\">good decision-making<\/a> are, all too often, embarrassed of their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/god-loves-me-10-year-old-trans-child-quotes-bible-to-tell-tx-legislators-why-they-shouldnt-ban-trans-surgeries-procedures-for-minors\/\" title=\"\u2018God Loves Me\u2019: 10-Year-Old Trans Child Quotes Bible To Tell TX Legislators Why They Shouldn\u2019t Ban Trans Surgeries, Procedures For Minors\">good choices<\/a>. To\u200d promote those choices might seem \u201cjudgmental.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">is the real tragedy\u200b of Burning Man: its mainstreaming. Every society has \u2064its oddball behaviors. Only sick\u2063 societies \u2062incentivize their imitation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE \u2063APP<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, the Burning Man festival in Nevada&#8217;s Black Rock Desert was flooded by a half inch of rain. The event, known for attracting crowds seeking hedonistic bliss through sex, drugs, and rock and roll, was swamped by the unexpected downpour, turning the dusty landscape into a watery mess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":2024705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2024704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2024704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2024705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2024704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2024704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2024704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}