MikeVDS wrote:Did radical inclusion not die when they started reserving passes for specified camps? So we're back down to 10?
Edit: I'm not griping about it. I agree that something along those lines is required for our situation; I just don't think radical inclusion applies anymore.
Radical inclusion didn't die at all.
1) These principles are only really applicable once you are
at the event, not leading up to it. Sure, people try and practice the principles outside the event, but following through strictly with that would be impossible. For one, decommodification is impossible if the event exists at all. Ticket are, and always have been, commodities. Attending the event also requires resources, even if bartering is not allowed at the event. Likewise, people have always been excluded from the event even before these ticket scarcity problems (see #2).
2) Just as "universal healthcare" is only "universal" for
citizens, non-attending people are already "excluded" because of other problems like finances, transportation, age, location, limits to tickets, how fast you can connect to servers, etc. This has always been the case, even when there was no ticket scarcity. Directed distribution is at least based on useful metrics such as LNT, past projects, involvement etc. and not on something stupid like how many years you've attended. This ensures that responsible communities are able to continue to participate in the event, which leads to #3.
3) Burning Man is equally about the inclusion of
communities (camps) as it is individuals. Humans are social creatures, and many of the projects and camps are only possible via cooperation. Scattering tickets randomly in a true random process, as demonstrated in the lottery, harms the communal structure of Burning Man by fragmenting camps. This is more harmful to the event than equal opportunity access to tickets for individuals across the board. Despite this, the majority of tickets are
still sold to individuals and resellable as well. With ticket scarcity we will always have people left out, all other things equal.