Posts about Serious Stuff

Serious opinions on serious topics from (mostly) serious people.

Report from the European Leadership Summit: Who’s Leading, Who’s Following?

February 9, 2016 By Caveat Magister

I was privileged to get to attend Burning Man's European Leadership Summit. This is the first in a short series ...Read More

December 1, 2015 By Stuart Mangrum

Part of the Art, Money, and the Renaissance blog series Since the theme for Burning Man 2016 is da ...Read More

November 30, 2015 By Caveat Magister

If we want the world to be more like Burning Man, then artists have to be able to make a ...Read More

November 4, 2015 By Caveat Magister

If we can’t take the topics that our community has passion for and fear about ... and use art and ...Read More

October 5, 2015 By Caveat Magister

I’ve wanted to write about a piece examining Burning Man through the lens of The Latitude Society (or vice-versa) for ...Read More

September 18, 2015 By Caveat Magister

After every Burn, there is a storm. A media storm. After 2013’s Burning Man, the big media storm was about ...Read More

September 15, 2015 By John "Halcyon" Styn

People say, “jump the shark” like it is a bad thing. Sure, it signified a time in the story arch ...Read More

August 30, 2015 By Caveat Magister

(AUTHOR'S NOTE: I would rather be writing about theme camps. I would rather be writing about the Midway. But in ...Read More

August 25, 2015 By Guest Post

by Sovamind Recently I saw someone share a video entitled “The Heart of Burning Man”, and while the video was ...Read More