Comments on: Thoughts about being an asshole at Burning Man

By: Fuzzy

Fuzzy — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 07:31:06 +0000

How come i am the only asshole that wants to suggest we dumb it down a bit and make the theme for the burn something simple like “HATS”
Personally I’m gonna walk around wearin a pair of cargo pants chanting my own name till i have a cult following after me also chanting my name!
Being an asshole out at that event is what makes it so special. I suggest being an asshole at least one day out of your week out there to everyone.
One time i was being a dick to these two nice old ladies. The one lady kicked me in the shin the other lady tackled me a gave me a nuggie! I then in turn gave the first lady a zobble on her belly while her friend laughed her ass off at the entire situation. Later on these ladies kidnapped me and made me go watch cinema at the local dome down the street playing the classics!
None of this amazing evening would have been possible if i would have not been an asshole in the first place. You gotta have tact when being a jerk out there. Some people are REALLY in the dumps. They don’t need to get dumped on further. It’s the ones that are on cloud nine. Those are the one’s! They needa good schalacking of abuse!

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By: Blaze

Blaze — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 07:49:19 +0000

Yes there is a “correct” Burning Man experience. However much people want to believe that anything goes–it doesn’t. Imagine if The Borg declared that no Man would be built one year, or for several years in a row? The citizenry would see it as an unforgivable blaspheme. And remember Paul Addis? He was prosecuted for setting The Man on fire 2007. The Man. The Man that is SUPPOSED to be set on fire. Anything that is defined at all by any definition, however vague, is then trapped within the limits of that definition. And there are limits, many of them, and many expectations that have come to be known, even in BRC, ones that most festival goers, and the ruling body, are not open to see changed.

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By: Tonic

Tonic — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 05:12:40 +0000

One of my favorite moments. Hanging out early in the week in the morning at the newly minted temple. Some woman there getting her picture taken posing against an outside wall. Suddenly, out of the blue some loud pranksters wearing lab coats and green wigs crash their golf cart right into the temple. It was hilarious. it was completely unexpected theatre of the absurd. O the precious temple defiled by these goons. Expectations crashed, mind reboots with laughter. Pro assholes.

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By: PlayaFerret

PlayaFerret — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 06:20:48 +0000

This give anyone else a Team America flashback? I was at the screening at BM2012, just to tie it in… Fuck Yeah!

“We’re dicks! We’re reckless, arrogant, stupid dicks. And the Film Actors Guild are pussies. And Kim Jong Il is an asshole. Pussies don’t like dicks, because pussies get fucked by dicks. But dicks also fuck assholes: assholes who just want to shit on everything. Pussies may think they can deal with assholes their way. But the only thing that can fuck an asshole is a dick, with some balls. The problem with dicks is: they fuck too much or fuck when it isn’t appropriate — and it takes a pussy to show them that. But sometimes, pussies can be so full of shit that they become assholes themselves… because pussies are an inch and half away from ass holes. I don’t know much about this crazy, crazy world, but I do know this: If you don’t let us fuck this asshole, we’re going to have our dicks and pussies all covered in shit!”

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By: simon of the playa

simon of the playa — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 21:55:41 +0000

“. If you see someone being a Douche on the playa, get a ranger or better yet find an asshole.”

absolutely brilliant.

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By: Bromance

Bromance — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:39:07 +0000

There is a difference of being an asshole and being a douche. Assholes in BRC are great. They make people uncomfortable and shake-up the experience. They are creators of thought and fun. Assholes know how to push the boundary and move the line. Assholes are harmless. It’s when they become douches that I have a problem.

Douches are not having fun. They don’t make the situation uncomfortable, they make it scary. If your goal is to start a fight because you need to feel good about yourself, you are a douche. If you are so drunk or/high that you are being a dick with zero awareness of the result of your actions: you are a douche.

I know douches are present all week but in my experience they seem to multiply when the weekenders show up. If you see someone being a Douche on the playa, get a ranger or better yet find an asshole.

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By: andr

andr — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 23:59:59 +0000

So maybe the principle of no taboos and restriction (radical inclusion and expression)is the sacret cow.
Anyways on cargocults:
The theme is misunderstood when you say that there is offence by pranking the tribes. See there is now right or wrong interpretation. But it would be difficult not to see how Christianity is a cargocult too. most religions if not all tell of the gods who will be back. I think this is the intended point is any one is itching to critisize it… but after all u know, its open to interpritation

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By: Liz

Liz — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 22:57:25 +0000

I think the assholery is only upsetting if you are unprepared for it. Read the blogs, spend a month or so on eplaya and you pick up on it real quick.

If you just read the ten principles, then you might get the feeling that this is some wondrous utopian hippy village where everyone is super nice to everyone and no one fights or yells or makes fun of your hair.

The difference for me is that instead of putting up a shield like I do in default world, I put up my fists. I’m allowed to be an asshole right back. I revel in it.

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By: simon of the playa

simon of the playa — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 22:35:40 +0000

Buddhist? Never….

i’m a strict marxist…..

groucho to be exact, although i do have a taste for authoritarian harpo-ism

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