Comment on Why is everyone so giddy about the flooding thay happened at burning man?
PostmodernPythia@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I actually think a lot is the opposite. If you think an event like this, attended by the likes of Bezos and Musk, is countercultural, or even “brings positivity into the world”, I have a beautiful bridge in Brooklyn to sell you. Of course most Burners have jobs, it’s a techbro’s dream. Plus, tickets are more expensive than they were in the old days, so real hippies can’t go. If people want to laugh at the suffering of rich people who cosplay as revolutionary, I’m generally ok with that. One big caveat: I’m very sorry someone died, and I don’t think mocking that’s cool, especially if we don’t know anything about them.
SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org 1 year ago
The richest people on earth attending doesn’t actually mean a single goddamned thing about it. Other than they want to be seen as “cool”…
PostmodernPythia@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Well, I guess we strongly disagree.
SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org 1 year ago
I’m sure billionaires have once enjoyed every activity you love, which if you were to be consistent, somehow taints all the things you enjoy. Very weird to think that way
PostmodernPythia@lemmy.world 1 year ago
An event isn’t an activity. And yes, if an event I loved turned into a meeting place for those people, I’d find a new event.
If Elon Musk and I both enjoyed cycling, for instance, fine. That doesn’t put me in the same space as him. Which is fundamentally different than going to a weeklong party he’s attending. Have your fun, just don’t pretend it’s revolutionary or creating a better world.