tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15644559.post4976225346524158911..comments2024-03-21T03:55:51.565-07:00Comments on Omniorthogonal: Burning Man Politicsmtravenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02356162954308418556noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15644559.post-8811242555159567712015-09-19T20:42:52.703-07:002015-09-19T20:42:52.703-07:00The Jacobin author is an ex-burner so don't th...The Jacobin author is an ex-burner so don't think can be easily dismissed as a stuffy NYer. <br /><br />There's always been a dynamic of capitalism coopting fringe cultures and emptying out whatever political content they may have had (see Thomas Frank's /The Conquest of Cool/). The Silicon Valley/Burning Man nexus may just have taken this process a few steps further, to the point where there is almost no discernable difference between the boardroom and bohemia.mtravenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02356162954308418556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15644559.post-14463804937935963372015-09-19T20:41:02.383-07:002015-09-19T20:41:02.383-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15644559.post-15968003708470555342015-09-19T12:28:56.164-07:002015-09-19T12:28:56.164-07:00Jacobin has a stuffy NY Marxist take on Burning Ma...Jacobin has a stuffy NY Marxist take on Burning Man that finds it "objectively" pro capitalist and unabashedly libertarian even if most don't explicitly subscribe to those labels. Self-indulgent expressive individualism isn't' free market fanaticism, but you can see how it somehow serves it.<br /><br />It's far more radical and admirable to be organizing for an old-fashioned union drive than to promote psychedelics and neo-communalism, from this POV. I don't agree with it, but it'd seem to have the better argument that IT serves lefty goals, not the hodgepodge of anti-establishment sentiment at Burning Man.<br /><br />I ruminate on this here: http://dryhyphenolympics.com/2015/06/14/yes-even-polyamorous-drug-users-are-conservative/Dainhttp://dryhyphenolympics.comnoreply@blogger.com