No apologies. I still find the statement "their event" offensive for the reasons stated. Swampdog started this mess by asking a (probably dumb) question following Madagascar Institute's platform statement that they wanted to get free tickets for artists (paraphrasing). Will all BORG2 members be expe...

and gifted the tickets to anyone that is putting in that much effort to build art That's a good idea. Everyone putting in a bunch of effort to make art should get in free. The tickets for yahoos will be $1,000 each and none of them will come. Of course, we won't have any infrastructure, but who car...

here in the year aught-five, year 20 of the Man, the year of borg2, all I see on this thread from some of the heaviest hitting denizens of the eplaya is..... "gee fellas and gals, wouldn't it be swell if we all camped together!?!? We could have a bitchin' bar!!!" Nothing about "we could do some outr...

I think anything that brings more better art to the playa is a very good thing. This whole borg2 started with a manifesto - here's how we think things should run. This particular thread started with enthusiasm, a sense of winning a competition for a shot at revitalizing the soul of burning man. I th...

ok, maybe I'm being obtuse here, but what exactly did borg2 win again? They can establish a semi-autonomous area within BRC to camp and place art for which they can raise their own funds with the blessing of borg1. And that's different from any other big camp because, ummmm, help me out here. They c...