What the Fuck Just Happened at Burning Man?

One that currently, to untrained eyes, can look suspiciously like refugee cosplay for wealthy tech bros along with their assorted disgruntled employees and hangers-on. (View Highlight)

Everything has always been a pain in the ass out there. It was always supposed to be. There is no victory to playing a game on the easy level. There are practically waiting lists for unpaid volunteer jobs at Burning Man that would be indistinguishable from punishment meted out for shoplifting in a third-world country that can create a staggering level of social capital commensurate with how brutally shitty they are. (View Highlight)

Like many other primitive cultures, Burning Man exists mainly on an oral tradition. (View Highlight)