Wishful thinking is not a substitute for action, but myopic thinking prevents meaningful action. Visionary thinking and integral action are a good recipe.
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Because here’s the truth about Burning Man: it has changed. And here’s another truth: it will continue to change. It won’t ever be the same as it was in the ’90s, or five years ago, or six weeks ago. And that’s good. It’s not a museum piece, or a stage play. It’s jazz. It changes. It’s not the same every time. It’ll never be like that again.
Because here’s the truth about Burning Man: it has changed. And here’s another truth: it will continue to change. It won’t ever be the same as it was in the ’90s, or five years ago, or six weeks ago. And that’s good. It’s not a museum piece, or a stage play. It’s jazz. It changes. It’s not the same every time. It’ll never be like that again.
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It’s time to make Burning Man tickets priceless. It’s time to ask each Burner to pay what they can afford and to practice generosity. It’s time for the LLC to discover how much more participants are willing to pay rather than to fear how little. Getting your ticket (and giving back) should be a sacred rite that feels good to everyone involved, rather than a shameful deal with the devil that makes no one happy. It’s time for us all to learn how to make a much stronger bridge between the playa and the default world, to make a bigger step into changing the way we deal with money and commerce outside the gate.
It’s time to make Burning Man tickets priceless. It’s time to ask each Burner to pay what they can afford and to practice generosity. It’s time for the LLC to discover how much more participants are willing to pay rather than to fear how little. Getting your ticket (and giving back) should be a sacred rite that feels good to everyone involved, rather than a shameful deal with the devil that makes no one happy. It’s time for us all to learn how to make a much stronger bridge between the playa and the default world, to make a bigger step into changing the way we deal with money and commerce outside the gate.
Why is Burning Man still selling tickets at all? : Dale Larson
God Bless America Trailer (by MagnoliaPictures)
Dragon Lotus Burning Art
I’m a backer of Dragon Lotus Burning Art on Kickstarter, and so can you!
The Top Five Regrets Of The Dying
Someone who fears what will happen if women and transgendered people gain true equality, if all humans are able to marry someone they love, or any other thing that absolutely needs to happen before this fight is over, should not be babied into thinking their fears are reasonable. No matter how real that fear feels to them, it’s still illogical, irrational, and completely naive. The only thing they stand to lose is their ability to scream about being afraid without being seen as a bigoted fool.
Someone who fears what will happen if women and transgendered people gain true equality, if all humans are able to marry someone they love, or any other thing that absolutely needs to happen before this fight is over, should not be babied into thinking their fears are reasonable. No matter how real that fear feels to them, it’s still illogical, irrational, and completely naive. The only thing they stand to lose is their ability to scream about being afraid without being seen as a bigoted fool.
» On Gender, idealism, and endless Twitter fights (part 1) Audrey Penven
be humble for you are made of earth be noble for you are made of stars
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Burning Man 2012 Ticket Lottery Post Mortem
My bid for a pair of tickets to Burning Man 2012 for myself any my beloved was successful! Most of the burners that registered in the main sale lottery were not as lucky.
The Burning Man Organization put up 40,000 tickets in the main sale lottery that concluded yesterday. All of those tickets were distributed, and now the cries of discontent are rippling through burner circles across the world.
Spin Cycle Camp set up a survey regarding the ticket lottery. You can participate here: http://isopop.com/2012/02/
Seems like a consistent 33% success (67% failure) rate among respondents. That rate jives with the experience of my own camp having only 2 of the 6 of us who registered for the lottery ‘winning’ their tickets.
I’m not a statistician, but can anything be inferred from this success rate to estimate the total number of lottery registrations? I think it’s possible that over 100,000 registrations were in the lottery system requesting around 170,000 tickets! That is incredible!
There are already scalpers posting ads on StubHub and Ebay (DO NOT PATRONIZE THESE SELLERS) for tickets at obscene prices. It will be very interesting to see what the Secure Ticket Exchange Program (STEP) looks like. If there isn’t a glut of unwanted tickets available through STEP, then the event truly just hit an inflection point. The culture dynamics will be instantaneously affected. Will it be for better or worse? That is the question.
