Burning Man 2019: Metamorphoses
Burning Man is routinely described as transformative. At the personal level, a transformative experience. At the group level, a transformative event or culture. What does that really mean? ...Read More
Why We Get the Robot Overlords We Deserve
Many months ago, while still developing this year’s theme, Larry Harvey began receiving a series of robocalls in which an ...Read More
What Gifting Teaches Us About The Holidays
(This is an old post that was lost in the great website upgrade and is being re-shared.) Everything I needed ...Read More
The Parable of the Gift
The only thing I ever get for Christmas is depressed, but that doesn’t mean we can’t talk about giving. For ...Read More
I, ROBOT
1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. ...Read More
The Things I Left In The Temple.
I loved the theme from the start. It turned up the volume on all that is deep and sacred about ...Read More
What If, after 10 Years of Really Trying, I Still Suck at a Principle?
It’s time to admit the truth: I suck at Radical Self-Reliance. It’s really bad. I went to my first Regional ...Read More
Death at Burning Man
Someone ran into the fire at this year's Burn. That affects everything...and nothing. As soon as I got off Playa ...Read More
Radical Ritual: “I Do”
This is my 20th year at Burning Man. My Burniversary. My Burn Mitzvah. My Black Rock City education is now ...Read More
Perform at Your Own Risk: What We’ve Learned About Radical Ritual
Ritual, like voting, has gotten a bad reputation in Western culture. When we first presented “Radical Ritual” as a theme, ...Read More