It’s not easy to talk about politics and Burning Man at the same time. On the surface, it doesn’t seem like Burning Man is about politics, so it’s hard to know where to start. That’s an illusion, though. For one thing, any decision to spend one’s time, money and energy on one thing and not another is a political decision. But moreover, if Burning Man can be said to be about anything, surely “imagining a better world” is a good candidate for what that thing might be, and that is squarely the realm of politics.
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