F the paradigm #2: Burning man - fake spirituality

The burning man paradigm is that if you practice mob think, and fake spirituality, then in a moment of extreme egocentrism you can delude yourself into thinking you are on the frontier of human consciousness and will change the world.

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• burning man
• spirituality
• bullshit
• paradigm
• human sacrifice fire out flame

[hokipokist]

Maybe burning man fest is just for fun. Ever tried that? Having fun?

[slmrcs]

@hokipokist Burning man is often discussed in terms of some sort of spiritual, political or economic message. It has none. I would not have made the video is people only claimed it was about fun. Your argument is an ad hoc rationalization. Burning man comes from people feeling lost in current society - but instead of channeling this angst into something useful - it's turned into neo-pagan bullshit. You ad hominen attack doesn't address the core issues. 

[ianwoodsman]

DELUDED is a smug little man making little videos of his uneducated opinions as if the hold some value. Im not angry, its just plain sad how jaded you are. Maybe spend less time on your little videos, and go do some living already. If the hope of the human race depends on people like you then we may as well give up.... Also, im about as spiritual as box of hammers, but i travel from Australia to go to Burning Man every year. why? Its the one week a year we can escape from people like you.

[slmrcs]

@ianwoodsman No, you go there because of some psychological need. The post industrial material world doesn't fulfill people - so they look for meaning. Burning man was/is a bottom up phenomena. I doubt they where planning on making any money - it just happened. It's not a religion per se, but it serves the same function. At least for a week.

[thedelta88]

i am in complete agreement with this. i don,t need to buy a ticket and mob up to find anything out about myself.

[timcat19]

Troll

[vervor]

MOCCKKK HUMAANNN SACRIFICE!!!!! AAAHHH RUNN AWAY!!!