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McBurners, by Mark Pesce
…”So now Black Rock City has a dependable population of roughly thirty thousand people who can be expected to show up, camp in essentially hostile conditions (no one else would willingly choose to live on Lake Lahotan), and have a quintessentially transpersonal experience.

And all of it has become highly ritualized. The greeters, who gleefully shout out “Welcome home!” when you arrive at the gate (the first time I heard this, I wanted to snarl, “Get away from me, you hippies, do you think you?re at Rainbow Gathering?”), to the slow trek into camp (at 5 mph, reading the sign-art), through everything else that leads up to the burn of the Man (and the Temple burn, which quickly became the de facto ritual for Sunday evening, the haunt of the hardcore Burners), it proceeds according to schedule, according to plan, according to time-honored tradition. If a tradition that?s barely a decade-old can seriously be called time-honored.” Read on