Comments on: Our Cargo Cult http://blog.burningman.com/2012/12/spirituality/our-cargo-cult/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=our-cargo-cult Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:03:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: oboepollo http://blog.burningman.com/2012/12/spirituality/our-cargo-cult/comment-page-1/#comment-90464 oboepollo Thu, 10 Jan 2013 18:06:50 +0000 http://blog.burningman.com/?p=23872#comment-90464 Stop the complaint department. You all see the amount of work that goes into this entire thing and you know its magical events and memories will never be forgotten. 380 for Assn entire ween offs more than fair. About fifty dollars a day for break down and it goes all night. Come on now…yall know you have spent fifty for a one night party that was what maybe eight hours in a contained area… If you don’t want to go then don’t…its simple. The price is fair. It costs money to very there but once your there what do u buy…ice? In theory you can go and offer your blessings and friendship and help or trinkets and eat for free the entire time. I fed so many people do you think creating this party, structures land, workers, clean up and behind the scenes s cheap? So shut it…go or don’t…its worth every damn dollar

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]]> By: jack johnson http://blog.burningman.com/2012/12/spirituality/our-cargo-cult/comment-page-1/#comment-87712 jack johnson Tue, 18 Dec 2012 19:45:06 +0000 http://blog.burningman.com/?p=23872#comment-87712 As 5th year attendee, I can say that the Burning Man event is a cultural phenomena . What one experiences is solely personal and unique. One can bring away from this experience only what they have absorbed. But to relate that to someone not familiar with the BM culture, is a difficult task. We all attend to socialize and interact with the BM event in different ways, whether it be volunteering to support our fellow burners or engage in presentation of relatable Art. I will be looking forward to another year on the Playa, to meet new friends and experience wonderful art and interesting people.

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]]> By: fancipants http://blog.burningman.com/2012/12/spirituality/our-cargo-cult/comment-page-1/#comment-87617 fancipants Tue, 18 Dec 2012 06:51:49 +0000 http://blog.burningman.com/?p=23872#comment-87617 the meaning of Burning Man?
hmmmm well it can be completely different for each unique participant imo. what one brings to the annual week long event and what they will find out about themselves in the process is again a very individual based experience which can really only fairly be defined by that person. that’s why Burners have such a hard time trying to explain to their Virgin friends what it’s all about. you have to prepare, get there, get dusty, find your way around the city, get lost, survive the heat, make new friends, share space, try new things and let go of any expectations before you can even try to define this multifaceted magical place!

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]]> By: Wawu Balabaloo http://blog.burningman.com/2012/12/spirituality/our-cargo-cult/comment-page-1/#comment-87575 Wawu Balabaloo Mon, 17 Dec 2012 18:27:49 +0000 http://blog.burningman.com/?p=23872#comment-87575 Larry is a form of Frum. Kind of like the Wizard of Oz behind the curtain, though he doesn’t hide.. he holds the cohesive idealistic vision staunchly for others to wiz-up their own magic to share, as he has said what it means in so many terms… that it is up to you to interpret what the burn means for yourself. I would happily say that, ironically, it’s our collective madness that is our savior.

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]]> By: montgomery_ryan@hotmail.com http://blog.burningman.com/2012/12/spirituality/our-cargo-cult/comment-page-1/#comment-87333 montgomery_ryan@hotmail.com Sat, 15 Dec 2012 21:18:31 +0000 http://blog.burningman.com/?p=23872#comment-87333 If Larry Harvey explaining what Burning Man is turns out to be anything like George Lucas’ unwieldy explanation of The Force in the prequels then I don’t want to have anything to do with it.

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]]> By: DPTV http://blog.burningman.com/2012/12/spirituality/our-cargo-cult/comment-page-1/#comment-87328 DPTV Sat, 15 Dec 2012 20:23:47 +0000 http://blog.burningman.com/?p=23872#comment-87328 One time I knew somebody who “got” burning man. They were really annoying.

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]]> By: Cusster http://blog.burningman.com/2012/12/spirituality/our-cargo-cult/comment-page-1/#comment-87315 Cusster Sat, 15 Dec 2012 18:07:10 +0000 http://blog.burningman.com/?p=23872#comment-87315 “It’s just Burning Man”? Someone doesn’t “get it”…

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]]> By: G http://blog.burningman.com/2012/12/spirituality/our-cargo-cult/comment-page-1/#comment-87219 G Sat, 15 Dec 2012 06:50:25 +0000 http://blog.burningman.com/?p=23872#comment-87219 My proof reading sucks.

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]]> By: G http://blog.burningman.com/2012/12/spirituality/our-cargo-cult/comment-page-1/#comment-87190 G Sat, 15 Dec 2012 02:48:10 +0000 http://blog.burningman.com/?p=23872#comment-87190 Reveal what Burning means?
Why would Mr. Harvey reveal the meaning of burning Man? How could he? Why would he? That would spoil the whole thing. All great art is ambiguous. With the Mons Lisa even be known at this point in history if Leonado da Vinci had spelled out exactly what the painting was all about in his own mind?

Will Larry Harvey save us?
I have also heard some indications that the whole Burning Man thing has grown up around him. He has become a symbolic figurehead surrounded by sycophants and enablers, and I don’t mean that in derisive way. Human nature is to form organizations, most often behind a dominant/symbolic figurehead (commomly male) at the top. They become something like the queen bee in a bee hive. (or the Queen of England, for that matter) The whole hive functions with the queen bee at the center. She does nothing except to eat, excrete, and drop eggs eggs .
We are all just social monkeys with extra toolmaking abilities after all. Burning Man is undeniably a social hierarchy.

Allow me to be a bit enigmatic and throw this out. Is Larry Harvey in fact the Burning Man culture’s John Frum / Handsome Lake / Hong Xiuquan / Anagarika Dharmapala?

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]]> By: Jon Mitchell http://blog.burningman.com/2012/12/spirituality/our-cargo-cult/comment-page-1/#comment-87169 Jon Mitchell Sat, 15 Dec 2012 01:41:25 +0000 http://blog.burningman.com/?p=23872#comment-87169 That was a boring comment. Be less hipster.

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