chargrille, 9 months ago

Never been to #BurningMan, never been sad about it.

Let's just say: no artist could create an installation that more effectively destroys the internal logic of the whole fucking thing, than driving hundreds of miles to bulldoze a climate protest so you can party in the middle of the desert, in the same summer where hundreds were murdered & poisoned by smoke in #Lahaina & #Yellowknife & across the #PacNW.

Edit to add link - https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/burning-man-2023-traffic-jam-protest-highway-18334916.php

@spacehobo I have a lot of friends who take great joy in #BurningMan. To me it always seemed a car-centric sun-worshipping club for rich white tech bros, and I've never made my distaste for the thing secret. But watching the Nevada cops just roll their giant war- boy trucks through a climate protest blockade so people can drive there better... Well, let's just say that it's rekindled my feelings of intense discomfort about the whole enterprise. Aug 28,2023, 11:15 - Edited Aug 28, 11:16 v - @ 13 12- & 1
Seven Circles said the purpose of the protest was “to draw attention to capitalism’s inability to address climate and ecological breakdown” and included three demands, including banning the use of private jets and single-use plastics at Burning Man and for the organization’s leaders to “admit that infinite growth is incompatible with sustaining the Earth’s systems.” Phoenix wrote that five protesters were cited and released, including one from California.