Burning Up Man

The Fun Burning People are bummed that it rained on their parade. They were just out their being inclusive and self-reliant and Free until the muck and filled-up porta potties ruined the party. Climate is really changing, they all shrug, last year it was scorching temps and wind, now this deluge. Now those 70,000 groovy people will have to go back to their real lives, scrape the mud off all their stuff, and bemoan the fact that extreme weather is wrecking their vacation. Not that there is anything they could do about it. Not like 70,000 groovy people have any REAL power to change anything. So they will just have to find different venues to perform symbolic self-affirmation, venues a little less "sere". A little less harsh or prone to extremes. Some are calling it a preview of an increasingly chaotic future and how we will need to adapt. We know how people will adapt; they'll just go party somewhere else. Let's form an awesome utopia for a week so we can experience personal liberation. Then we can go back to the real world, the capitalist world, and save up some money for next year's party.