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Tech Elites Recreate Burning Man Inside Their Living Rooms

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What does this nonsense have to do with Burning Man?

It has nothing to do with the "celebrate self-sufficiency, leave-no-trace-environmentalist" Burning Man.

It has a lot to do with the "spend thousands of dollars to go to the desert, sit in an airconditioned pavilion and talk about how money just, like, doesn't matter man" Burning Man.

It has everything to do with CURRENT Burning Man.

If you see a piece in the NYT that's making fun of those weird tech nerds, odds are high it's in the styles section. Choire Sicha, formerly of Gawker, took over the section last year, and since then there's been a rash of pieces akin to this one. Not exactly hit pieces but it's hard to miss the wry condescension throughout.

These journals are becoming less and less relevant

You might be interested in reading Choire’s definition of what the Styles section is/should be.

>I totally hear you that the name “Styles” can sometimes seem like a purple spotlight on a green bowl of fruit, or like a goofy headline on a serious story. We will aggressively cover politics, gender, sexuality, health, crime, shoes and contouring. These things make change in the world. You think Sports is going to cover all this?

Much more here:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/26/reader-center/choire-sich...

Who cares what these people do in their own living rooms as diversion? Also, Burning Man doesn't seem to have anything to do with what they're doing, other than music and (likely) drugs.

They really took a journalistic stretch on those "Tech Elites." Not really sure what the connection is to Burning Man either.

What is someone really supposed to take away from this article?

The article mentions both Musk and Thiel attending one of these songversations. I don’t like either of them, but I think “Tech Elite” fits them well enough.

Its a house party. They've invented a house party.

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