gaminwench wrote:please, no righteous virus ...
(Is there a vaccine?)
My experience is that building stuff and burning it down is the vaccine. I did that and found it to be extremely helpful.
Stopped caring what other people were doing when the sculpture went up. Forgot what it was that I was supposed to "get" when it burned down. A while back ago in this thread I said sarcastically, "Burn however you like, or call whatever you want burning." Now I am ready to say it sincerely.
A+++ Highly Recommend. Would burn again.
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Aside from that, I think that the core issue is poorly framed. Camp amenities are not the key issue - hiring servants is the key issue. I read the principles as written and I don't see how you can call that "decommodification". You have a relationship between two people in the event - a social environment - which is clearly mediated by the commercial transaction of one person being previously paid to muddle that mint and mix that mojito.
But this is none of my business. No one is vending. No one is advertising to me. I don't have any ID or invitation to enter the camp, and I didn't pay anyone to muddle that mint and mix that mojito. If I did get invited in and felt weird about the paid bartender, I can just politely finish up, thank everyone, make some comment about how nice the camp looks, and move on.
The burn is an opportunity to do whatever it is that I want/need to do. That is burning.
If there is an RV wall somewhere around 6:30, then I think that I need to figure out how that could possibly present a problem to me over at 9:00 before I start bitching about it.
In any case, I will come back to this thread in another year when I will likely have a totally different opinion about it. It's an interesting conundrum.
For whatever reason, I'm very hit and miss about the sunscreen on the last day.
