Burning man and elitest raves are the height of ego-laden narcisscissm. Why do those who seek that kind of communion just find it at their local parish or Christian community hall?
if you think you need to be in a group like that to have a 'moment', you can do it once a week in church and you don't have to do a high-footprint trip to a crowded desert.
PS: you ruin the place when you do that.
this is the kind of gathering that should be easier to have!
how about his next one at a Water Park?
PS: your summer rave shouldn't need an Environmental Incident Report as a necessary follow along to the event.
"Gathering Together" is a well known and ancient thing.
those who try to simulate it through 'festivals' don't always cook up something meaningful.
It's alike a 'bread'
Bread And Puppet did a good job with it.
East Coast raves are usually saner. Everyone's already provisioned and living in their cars for a week or two, people of a certain crowd, who find it easy to do camping on the fly.
but to go to a desert without water and do it? that's not really useful.
In the East, where there are rivers and gorges full of flooding rapids, cool water, a summer rave can come and go for a day or two and it's just a season of wild dancing . . .
it doesn't even need to be known about to anyone who doesn't go to it.
a day later it's as if it never happened.
Used to happen a lot especially with Phish and The Grateful Dead.
that's the height of jaded!
seriously I understand your point of view however it's not ALL of them that are 'all about drugs'.
in fact gathering is common and useful, and music and dancing are fun without drugs so you are wrong.
Burning man, if you rated 'are these people here for drugs or not for drugs'?
why go all the way to the dessert when you can just sojourn to SOMO or Berkeley and procur there?
why drive to a place where you might die?
if it's real, with a real connected community of people wh owant to be involved, no matter what kind of a flash mob it is, then it doesn't need international media attention.
Gathering and dancing is a common thing. It's not 'all about the drugs'.
for the Burning Man, or for the Google-narcisscist gathering in Siciliy?
Wonder if they'll have any dancing there?
What if it becomes like a scene at Lake Havasu? all the boaters partying.
think that they'll have a moment of silence for the girl who OD'd in Hyannis?
No, Lake Havasu seems like a sane and local thing.
the next Trump Rally could be as cool as that!
You can't join Eric and all for the "Giggle Sicily Summer Seance" will they try and perform a mock Baal ceremony at an abandoned temple to summon the Kracken! What will be on the menu? Abomination Pie and fizz-soda assortment of allotments of finery and foolery for all friends not foes? Is part of the program a reenactment of the running of the bulls within a labyrinth, with secret tunnels. Will guests be told where the secret side doors are so they can escape from being trampled?