"Response to raid on White Ocean zone split with some describing it as an attempt to reclaim event from the ‘parasite class’"
Parasite Class... A good description Marx would smile at of someone making 60K a year to write apis or network engineer the lip syncing of executive conference calls. > > > Damien Gayle > @damiengayle > > Monday 5 September 2016 07.02 EDT > > > The organisers of an exclusive camp at Nevada’s Burning Man festival have > denounced “hooligans” whom they accuse of raiding their camp, stealing items, > gluing trailer doors shut and cutting the power. > > Pershing County sheriff’s office was called to the festival to investigate > after the night-time raid targeting the White Ocean camp as it hosted its > “white party”, where ravers dress in white and dance all night to techno > music. > > Its organisers wrote on Facebook: “Guys, I think what happened last night > should be known on social media … A band of hooligans raided our camp, stole > from us, pulled and sliced all of our electrical lines leaving us with no > refrigeration and wasting our food and glued our trailer doors shut, > vandalised most of our camping infrastructure, dumped 200 gallons of potable > water flooding our camp.” > Dust to dust: mourning the dead at Burning Man > Read more > > The response from festival regulars has been split, with sympathy towards the > camp tempered by many who say that the “prank” on White Ocean, a closed zone > funded by tech entrepreneurs, was “taking burning man back from the parasite > class”. > > In recent years, Burning Man has transformed from an anarcho-hippie fire > ritual in San Francisco into a pricey end-of-summer romp in the Nevada desert > for 65,000 people. But with growth has come controversy around the impact of > big money. > > Participants at the three-decade old festival, which is based on an ethos of > co-creation and mutual self-reliance, traditionally all pitch in to build the > event. It is built around a radical “gifting” culture, where even strangers > who wander into a camp are supposed to be served; in turn, they are expected > to do the same for others. > > But as Burning Man has become more popular, it has become seen as an annual > fixture for global elites who pay others to build them exclusive camps called > “plug and plays”, which allow them to swoop in, turn on and drop out for a > few days before returning to corporate life. More @Guardian UK: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/sep/05/luxury-camp-at-burning-man-festival-targeted-by-hooligans
