Burning Man is so very wrong | By Mark Morford

[madokie]

Here’s what you need to know about Burning Man in this fine year of our unchecked chaos, 2014: Nothing.

I mean, just forget everything, all right? Whatever you’re heard, read, seen, rumored, teased, whispered, Facebooked, Instagrammed, linked to, thought about or had muttered in your general direction in an Uber fever dream anytime in the past month. Year. Decade.

Because it’s almost certainly wrong. Delightfully, hatefully, stupidly, shamelessly, deliberately, resentfully, innocently or even inadvertently, it doesn’t matter – there’s almost nothing the slightest bit accurate in what the modern media has said recently about the famed art/camping/dance/survival festival – now in its 28th year – happening right now out in the Nevada desert.

I’d say this is shocking, if it weren’t so common. And predictable. And boring.

http://blog.sfgate.com/morford/2014/08/26/burning-man-is-so-very-wrong/#15503101=0

[Bandit]

1. Canceled because of rain.

[Brickbat]

2. My goodness, that was a defensive tantrum.

[ripcord]

3. If nothing else

It is a chance to go out and trash the desert.

[Zorra]

4. Burning Man is an amazing experience,

Lots of creative free spirited free thinkers gathered in one place, burning The Man. Great fun!!!

[Luminous Animal]

5. It clears out the city of San Francisco. Which is nice.

[MadrasT]

6. Not even slightly appealing to me. It sounds like chaos. I don't enjoy chaos. n/t

[Brother Buzz]

7. Hanging out on an alkaline lake bed has never been my idea of fun

Now, hold the festival on a mountain overlooking the ocean, and I just might make the pilgrimage.

[marions ghost]

8. What problem?

Who's been saying what?

Even if you'd never go, I can't imagine anyone having a problem with Burning Man.