Burning Man, a modern day Woodstock, occurs each year in the desert. This year brought 87,000 people together to live, if only for a few days, in a cooperative nirvana. We take some time to look at the Burning Man principles for living and ask whether they make any sense.

Foolishness of the week: 05:21 Main episode: 11:44

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Quick Hits

https://www.iflscience.com/linguists-speak-of-a-new-language-dialect-evolving-in-the-us-70586

Foolishness of the Week

https://sourcenm.com/briefs/n-m-governor-declares-state-of-emergency-over-gun-violence/

https://ibis.doh.nm.gov/indicator/view/DthRateLdgCause.Year.Cause.html

https://everystat.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Gun-Violence-in-New-Mexico-2.9.2021.pdf

Topic of the Week

https://survival.burningman.org/culture/the-10-principles/

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/08/the-wonderful-weird-economics-of-burning-man/376108/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/09/06/burning-man-2023-photos-nevada-desert/70774615007/

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/05/business/burning-man-billionaires/index.html

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