The underground is not as deep as it was and its coming up to the serface. main stream
things try and take over. people watch that on TV and go wow look what we can go see.
the media is mostly at fault.

Joe

-----Original Message-----
From: don spence <dspence@OANET.COM>
Sent: Sep 7, 2004 9:42 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Burning Man

I fear the end is nigh for Burning Man. 35,000 this year, who knows
what will happen next year. I live in Edmonton AB Canada. Many many
hundreds miles form the desert and yet, for several days the front page
of the local newspaper (Edmonton Journal) was filled with feature
articles on the goings on at Burning Man. One day featured a large
colour photo of the BM shower, a naked woman running behind the water
truck as it sprayed for dust control. If this kind of coverage was
repeated in other cities on this continent you can bet the yahoos will
be trekking to BM next year. The articles were syndicated so surely ran
across Canada at least.

As one of the writers pointed out: "  The underground is not deep. From
basement conception to unprecedented genius to sales rack at Wal-Mart,
it takes about five years for North America to commodify and devour any
meaningful artifact of its counterculture. "

   Too bad.
>
>
> Burning MAn? 35,000 people living to a new set of rules that weren't
> there 5
> years ago. no thanks.