The Burning Man Project is an experiment in social transformation. Once a population of self-sufficient and socially minded participants, it has been systematically turned upside down. The ridiculously massive infrastructure is set in place to 1) make real self-sufficiency unnecessary, 2) give purpose to the volunteers within the infrastructure itself.
Participation has come to mean volunteerism, and vise versa. This volunteerism created a social system based on two classes, 1) the volunteers, 2) everyone else. The volunteers exist to build the infrastructure for everyone else, and everyone else exists to be dependent on the infrastructure.
The notion that everyone could be a participant (or volunteer) as it once was, no longer exists. And the Burning Man Project is in place to secure this separation, because without it there would be no need for the Burning Man Project.
This antisocial divide was not created accidentally or as a byproduct of necessity. In the absence of a dragon to slay, this overladen quasi government can only exist by protecting the individuals from themselves. Thus the need to attract more and more clueless spectators who will hail their providers' sacrifices in laboring to build the infrastructure that they are so willfully dependent upon.
Blame it all on the various types of antisocial personality disorders in which people will do anything for attention, and for the feeling that they are better than other people.
Participation has come to mean volunteerism, and vise versa. This volunteerism created a social system based on two classes, 1) the volunteers, 2) everyone else. The volunteers exist to build the infrastructure for everyone else, and everyone else exists to be dependent on the infrastructure.
The notion that everyone could be a participant (or volunteer) as it once was, no longer exists. And the Burning Man Project is in place to secure this separation, because without it there would be no need for the Burning Man Project.
This antisocial divide was not created accidentally or as a byproduct of necessity. In the absence of a dragon to slay, this overladen quasi government can only exist by protecting the individuals from themselves. Thus the need to attract more and more clueless spectators who will hail their providers' sacrifices in laboring to build the infrastructure that they are so willfully dependent upon.
Blame it all on the various types of antisocial personality disorders in which people will do anything for attention, and for the feeling that they are better than other people.
Susie: I volunteer at Burning Man. I'm sooo important there.
Jake: Sorry, I don't date psycho bitches from hell.
Jake: Sorry, I don't date psycho bitches from hell.
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The community experience so fondly trumpeted as the living skin of the Burning Man is pocked, scarred, and so lacerated that it is no longer the durable integument needed to sustain the Burning Man's viscera. Last year's community was such a stark and realistic representation of modern civilization that it reminded me of my own downtown Oakland.
Burning Man, the man who murdered both his parents... pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
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ESU Alameda was originally portioned into three sections: Networks section, Systems section and the Projects section. This separatist model created demanding obstacles for the personal. Eventually this model rendered the techs at ESU Alameda unable to perform tasks outside their assigned sections. This imbalance in knowledge was the acting catalyst to divide the sections into smaller teams. The target was to merge the section experts and enable a cross-training program to expand the knowledge of the techs amongst each other.
ESU Alameda was originally portioned into three sections: Networks section, Systems section and the Projects section. This separatist model created demanding obstacles for the personal. Eventually this model rendered the techs at ESU Alameda unable to perform tasks outside their assigned sections. This imbalance in knowledge was the acting catalyst to divide the sections into smaller teams. The target was to merge the section experts and enable a cross-training program to expand the knowledge of the techs amongst each other.
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