Burning Man is the experience of a product called 'freedom' that anyone can purchase for $380.
First let's be pragmatic:
- Bad ideas: "That'll never work"
- Good ideas: "That could work"
- Great ideas: "That'll never work"
Burning Man is a great idea that works better than you could imagine. It's often described as an experiment in radical self-expression and radical self-reliance, based on the Ten Principles.
Burning Man was founded in 1986 when San Francisco artist Larry Harvey gathered a small group of people on the Summer Solstice to burn an 8-foot wooden structure of a man at Baker Beach. Today, Burning Man is celebrated on an empty lake bed in Nevada's Black Rock Desert, 120 miles north of Reno, Nevada.
In Black Rock City, all commercial activity is forbidden and is replaced by the adoption of an extensive barter economy and the practice of "gifting."
It is a party in the desert with your Sparkle Pony. That's basically it.