Comments on: Burning Man 2013 theme announced

By: wrybread

wrybread — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 00:26:00 +0000

As the graffiti in the porta potty so nicely put it, “taking a shit on acid was better last year”.

By: Antonio Carrasco

Antonio Carrasco — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 18:44:00 +0000

How can you tell if someone goes to Burning Man?

Don’t worry… THEY WILL TELL YOU

By: wysinwyg

wysinwyg — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 17:18:00 +0000

Let’s change the theme to “politically correct”. I’m sure that will make for much better artwork and hotter parties.

More seriously, “cargo cult” is a perfect burner theme — a religion formed when a primitive culture encounters futuristic (to them) technology and tries to make sense of it. I don’t see how this denigrates the original cargo cults in any way.

By: Nils Lobie Weedøn

Nils Lobie Weedøn — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 02:20:00 +0000

Because the theme was also once The American Dream (EDIT: also The Green Man, a year which featured an enormous crude oil explosion) and isn’t always necessarily something to be revered as much as something to spark artists’ inspiration.

By: Allison Moon

Allison Moon — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 22:53:00 +0000

Shall I be the first Burner to cry “PROBLEMATIC”?

While the story of Frum sounds all cute and Maker-inspirational, its existence is due to European colonialism and American militarism combining to destroy an indigenous culture. Why on the Playa’s brown clay should we be honoring that? Especially, since, y’know, Burning Man is mostly white, mostly middle class, and happens adjacent to tribal lands?

By: speleothem

speleothem — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 06:34:00 +0000

It’s Mitt Romney’s nightmare! Shopping bag headed people expecting “things” with Obama as John Frum.

By: pjcamp

pjcamp — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 04:53:00 +0000

Usually, when people wear bags on their heads, they stick them through the open end.

By: Felix Hoenikker

Felix Hoenikker — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 23:20:00 +0000

I lost it when I saw the theme, been a Richard Feynman groupie since I was little. I send everyone his 1974 Caltech commencement speech titled “Cargo Cult Science.” Read it if you haven’t had the chance.

http://www.lhup.edu/~DSIMANEK/cargocul.htm
I’m planning on doing a large Feynman tribute piece for Burning Man 2013, if anyone is interested please email me. <3

By: mack

mack — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 22:59:00 +0000

We are already striving to build the world we would prefer out of snips, scraps, chewing gum and baling wire. This is DEAD ON.

By: orwell

orwell — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 22:50:00 +0000

headlining this year’s burning man will be the unknown comic orchestra

By: webstu

webstu — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 22:23:00 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlnxPOeyTbk

By: taras

taras — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 22:22:00 +0000

Here’s a documentary about the cult that worships Prince Phillip – when they were brought to England (and did eventually meet their God): http://www.veoh.com/watch/v15812370mFfCWssb?h1=Meet+The+Natives+Part+1

By: ZA_SF

ZA_SF — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 22:01:00 +0000

OMG, that’s awesome! Too bad I won’t be joining TTITD in 2013. I hope someone organizes a Tanna Drill Team (it’d be acceptable inverted cultural appropriation), and shirtless marching is already so Playa. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfSC6RDyVA0

By: sigismund

sigismund — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 21:54:00 +0000

here’s the soundtrack : http://youtu.be/v8myiPb233E

By: jgs

jgs — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 21:48:00 +0000

The artist missed an opportunity to draw everyone in cargo pants.

By: Gendun

Gendun — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 21:08:00 +0000

How many Heaven’s Gate theme camps do we predict?

By: kartwaffles

kartwaffles — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 21:03:00 +0000

John Frum is a pretender. Every serious person knows Tom Navy is where it’s really at.

By: tristan eldritch

tristan eldritch — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 20:56:00 +0000

Won’t a good half of Burning Man’s core audience have ascended to a higher dimensional frequency by the end of the year?

By: franko

franko — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 20:55:00 +0000

larry’s ideas for themes almost always make me do a double-take, and this is no exception. it seems like he had someone help wrangle his explanation into something coherent this time, though, because the more i read, the more i was thinking: ….YES!
tl;dr: great idea for a theme. love it.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 20:41:00 +0000

So if you can’t make it to Micronesia going to Burning Man is the next best thing.