With Burning Man 2024 version within the rearview, its organizers are setting their sights on the lengthy street forward—however not with out first reflecting on current bumps in that street.
To safe the way forward for the enduring occasion, CEO Marian Goodell just lately printed a weblog put up in The Burning Man Journal and referred to as upon its world group for donations throughout what she referred to as an “inflection point as a nonprofit.” This public plea adopted a troubling 12 months for Burning Man, which did not promote out for the primary time in a decade amid considerations surrounding inflationary pressures and ticket pricing.
Organizers are retaining spirits excessive, nevertheless, by saying the Black Rock Metropolis gathering’s subsequent theme: Tomorrow At the moment.
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The “protopic” idea—a time period coined by Burner Kevin Kelly to explain “a future based on steady progress, better than today but not perfect, and not without setbacks,” was revealed in a weblog put up by Stuart Mangrum, the director of Burning Man Venture’s Philosophical Heart.
“If we think of the future as a story we tell ourselves, two plotlines have seemingly come to dominate the popular imagination,” Mangrum writes. “On the one hand, a happy modernist fable of tech-fueled utopia, and on the other a postmodern myth of dystopian collapse.”
“It’s increasingly difficult to believe in the first [plotline] because we now know it’s built on an unsustainable foundation,” he continues. “And we don’t even want to think about the second because it’s a tragedy where no one gets out alive.”
For veteran Burners and newcomers alike, now’s the time to get severe about shaping the gathering’s future and permitting it not solely to outlive, however thrive. Burning Man, of all locations, is right here to remind us of the facility of our personal minds. Subsequent 12 months’s burn encourages us to embrace protopianism and “to dream, invent, prototype and share our best and brightest ideas for the years ahead.”
You may learn Mangrum’s full weblog put up right here.
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