LAist: 2008 Burning Man Theme Announced, Burners Gasp

guest

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:42:48 -0800

Allow Burning Man Participants To Vote For Theme If Burning Man is truly a participant sponsored, participant created event then why not allow its participants to vote for and choose the event art theme each year? The Burning Man Project can suggest a few theme choices and then burners can vote for their favorite. Give people who attend Burning Man the freedom to create the theme so they are participating and creating the event experience in the most absolute sense. Click here to sign a petition.

aplayapal

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:18:43 -0800

As a Nevadan who has been blowing up and burning stuff on the playa for more than 30 years, I'd like to remind you that we "rednecks and hicks" are here already, and will be here after the last glowstick LAweenie leaves. We don't need an "invitation", just a ticket like every year. America is ours, too; please share. There's no need to open a Wal Mart on the playa, there were plenty of walmart bikes (upc stickers still on) dumped on the playa by the burners who fly in, buy, and dispose of their debris here. Really Green of them.

guest

Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:39:58 -0800

I think the new theme is hilarious. Maybe we should do a Fascist Christian Flash Mob? Convert participants to Christianity? Start a war with the camp next to us? Sell trinkets from China? (yes I said sell) Build a WalMart? Subdivide and develop large tracts of land? Dress up as the BLM and spy on people with infrared goggles? Whatever happens, the burners will twist the theme to their own debauched purposes. I have faith in the madness.

guest

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:37:47 -0800

Are you sure that the pre-mature burning of the man this year had anything to do with this year's theme? Here and here (including his "official statement".

guest

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:37:09 -0800

Are you sure that the pre-mature burning of the man this year had anything to do with this year's theme? Also, are you sure that the theme is not just so full of double-meanings and jokes (i.e. burning a giant office building!) that it is totally brilliant? Having spent the last few years living outside of the US, I often find myself wondering why I ever bother coming back to my home country at all. I'm still not sure, but the subtle interplay at BRC between self-reliant individualism, bleeding-edge creativity, and an intensely dharmic sense of community create one of the things that makes me most proud to be an American...