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.
by mikeTjones December 29, 2009
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Captain Don: "You're gonna have to take every other draw tonight, because scottie crab got hurt, so its just you and dunny in the circles tonight. But I need you to pace yourself it's the Championship game for all the marbles"
Slick Willie: "No problem I'll just play Center lock and only jump up in the play at key moments to save energy"
Scottie Crab: ahh Jeff were you (on the way to the rink) burning wood (again)
Slick Willie: "No problem I'll just play Center lock and only jump up in the play at key moments to save energy"
Scottie Crab: ahh Jeff were you (on the way to the rink) burning wood (again)
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The set of characteristics involving, but not limited to, a burning sensation around the anus and difficulty wiping. BBS often includes the associated condition of diarrhea. Though no clinical trial data exists, BBS is thought to highly correlate with the ingestion of spicy food.
I once ate a whole jar of peperoncini and then spent the next day suffering from "Burning Butthole Syndrome (BBS)."
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Get the barking spider mug.means to smoke the roach of a blunt. Originates from three high schooler's in Oakland who put the roach into the window of a hotwheels car, and smoked the roach by inhaling through the other window. This "burned the paint" on the top of the car, hence the saying.
stoner #1: yo bruh do you throw away the roach when you're almost burning yo fingers?
stoner #2: nah man that's a waste of weed, I stay burning the paint.
stoner #2: nah man that's a waste of weed, I stay burning the paint.
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