Radical principles give the event value despite this year's disaster
have spread online, and the internet is awash with memes mocking the plight of attendees, or “burners”.
Burning Man is an easy target. These days, it’s typically associated with either “dirty hippies” more concerned with highs and hedonism than hygiene, or a wealth of derisible clientele, like influencers, tech bros and celebrities .US’ straight-laced couple Jim and Pam claimed to have conceived their first child in the temporary toilets there.
or Coachella. For the time it occupies Black Rock City each year, it creates a self-sustaining community where capitalism is shunned and there’s no line-up of acts to speak of.The bash is a cashless society in the true sense of the phrase – money won’t get you anything here. Instead, Burning Man operates on a borrowing, bartering and trading system, encouraging its attendees to make fair deals with one another instead of trying to make a profit from their fellow humans.
Since it was founded by Larry Harvey and Jerry James in 1986 in San Francisco, Burning Man has been guided by 10 principles – radical inclusion; gifting; decommodification; radical self-reliance; radical self-expression; communal effort; civic responsibility; leaving no trace; participation; and immediacy. Early editions were a sanctuary for Bohemians and the counterculture, with tickets for the first years free of charge or available for a suggested donation of $15-25.
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