- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our preoccupation has always been to craft space in such a way as to induce social interactions that would in turn generate a sense of community and a culture, but starting from the very immediate issue of how action influences perception.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
The art cars are the public transportation system. And that requires regulation because, lately, we've had art cars that don't want people on board and that want private parties, and that's in conflict with the communitarian feeling and the interactive aspect of society.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've been civilized from the beginning. In the desert, it's a baroque city like Paris or Rome.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child, I craved sophistication and culture. My parents didn't know what to make of me.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
We didn't worry about getting a venue or asking permission. We started out guerrilla. We were illegal, going down to the beach to burn this thing.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Burning Man is like a big family picnic. Would you sell things to one another at a family picnic? No, you'd share things.
- Enhances
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- Nov 07, 2020
People give because they identify with Burning Man, with our city, with our civic life. The idea of giving something to the citizens of Black Rock City has enormous appeal to them because it enhances their sense of who they are and magnifies their sense of being. That's a spiritual reward.
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
If all of your self worth and esteem is invested in how much you consume, how many likes you get, or other quantifiable measures, the desire to simply possess things trumps our ability or capability to make moral connections with people around us.
- Nov 07, 2020
Belief is thought at rest.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is, that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other.
- Mystery
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- Nov 07, 2020
They become the keepers of the mystery. They place themselves between the communicants of the religion, and the immediate experience. And then they dictate the terms on which you can have contact with this wonderful mystery. We don't dictate those terms.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere goodwill. They grow out of a shared struggle. Our situation in the desert is an incubator for community.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in my late 30s, I lit a figure on fire on Baker Beach in San Francisco. It was me, a friend, and maybe eight people, tops. There wasn't any premeditation to it at all. It was really just a product of San Franciscan bohemian milieu.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm actually a very shy person. You'd be surprised how many leaders are shy. They're not all extroverts by nature.
- Expire
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up on a farm in Oregon, an adopted child, with one sibling, and parents the age of all my peers' grandparents. We lived in isolation from the people around us, and it was always a struggle to cope with as a child. The heart can really expire under those conditions. I always felt like I was looking at the world from the outside.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've learned never to expect people to be better than they are, but to always have faith that they can be more.
- Nov 07, 2020
We see culture as a self-organising thing.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll believe in utopia when I meet my first perfect person, and this community is made up of 70,000 imperfect persons.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020