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We're abstaining this year, 2000, and starting a new, action packed adventure series of our own.

Here's why. I just don't have the patience for 28,000 nouveaux riche kids treating it like a random bacchanal or networking retreat. Irresponsible behavior was the death of the original event long ago, and that is practically encouraged this year. I indulged last year in nostalgia, saw intimate friends who I only ever meet in the desert. Some (who have much more patience than I) are returning; most of them are abstaining.

Other perspectives:
"Ritual Without Dogma": Liberating, Purifying, and Primalizing Consumption At The Burning Man Project
(really good anthropology - you can't tell he's a regular Burner)
Whip It goes to Burning Man (1998)
Pigdog's Burning Man Nonsense
Wrybread's Burning Man pages
First Church of Larry
M*A*S*Hcara Camp
Spark Media
Fandango!
Piss Clear