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This film made me furious

posted 10 years ago by tooks
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Holy smokes I can't believe hypocrisy of it all. What an absolute waste of precious resources, time, and effort. If half of these industrious people spent half their energy doing something that might actually bring positive change to the globe, then I might accept it. Leave nothing behind? Bull. All the wasted fuel, burning of who knows what into the atmosphere, cigarette butts that take decades to decompose. These people are a bunch of selfish pricks that are in complete denial about what Burning Man actually is - a stain on this beautiful earth that takes, takes, takes.

[–] hotmomoko 10 years ago

I agree with you. They have too much of everything and here in third world countries the poor are too poor to die.

[–] bartgirls 10 years ago

People going to a desert don't annoy me. Selfish people who think they're better than you because they are raking millions of dollars and create the ultimate masturbation experience. There's nothing about love, hope or anything like the sort. Watching a group of white people suffering "first world problems" makes me sick. Worst documentary subject ever.

[–] amandaaaj 10 years ago

It was really bad. The fortunate aspect of it was it "enlightened" me to how much hypocrisy, selfishness, *beep* and ego go into this festival. I am grateful for this awareness so that I can have a more realistic perspective on what it's really about. The "management" really embarrassed themselves throughout the entire documentary through nonstop drama, ignorance, immaturity and whining, with their million dollar salaries. I had no idea Burning Man was really about a bunch of corporate *beep* but in this society, I guess I should have known it was too good to be true. I was wondering why they even gave the majority of screentime to scenes like that, instead of showing whatever "magic" really happens at this festival. Watching scenes of selfish and shady people sitting in an office freaking out and bickering over everything wasn't the kind of free spirit leadership I expected. A "true" Burning Man wouldn't need a board of directors, wouldn't need MILLIONS of dollars to carry out materialistic fantasies, wouldn't need 5 kinds of law enforcement preying upon nonviolent drug users, would cost nothing and would require no "tickets".

[–] drjeff21 9 years ago

They (like certain groups in our society in general), all talk about "inclusiveness, love and peace" and that everyone is welcome, etc., but it costs several hundred dollars for a ticket to go to this event on public land (tough luck poor folks), and the people who told the two guys that they could not come into "their" (the founders) area and of course that dude who thinks that everyone who works on Wall St. should be murdered.