Weird article on Burning Man from the great spoiler Wired Magazine

[some seeing eye]

Wired Magazine had its roots in Stewart Brand's Whole Earth Catalog-Co-Evolution Quarterly. Bruce Sterling is one of the founders of the cyberpunk branch of science fiction writing. In 1996 Wired hired Sterling to write https://www.wired.com/1996/11/burningman-2/ published November 1996. Wired had its IPO October 1996 on a circulation base of about 325,000 led by Goldman Sachs.

While the increase in attendance between '96 and '97 was modest, '97 was on Hualapa and the first year of the LLC post-the Larry Harvey vision and split with the Cacophony Society crowd. But the '96 article was an unnecessary exploitation of the event by mass media.

Now Wired, part of Conde Nast-Advance Publications, a large privately held ~3B corp, has a new Burning Man article https://www.wired.com/story/dune-burnin ... rituality/.

It is clearly a sad cross-promotion. Mass media is always bad for Burning Man compared to organic person to person bringing virgins. Burning Man as religion always leads to the fall.*

*Ironically Hellco on playa was in 1996.