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Burning Man 2009: anyone going?
Sox:
It was irritating last month, too.
Alex C:
I'm interested in Burning Man insofar as it sounds like a place where I could spend a solid week being helpful to people in a unique environment, which sounds pretty cool. On the other hand, I don't really give a crap about art, spirituality, getting high or partying. My attitude is pretty similar to that of a cartoonishly strict secular humanist, when it comes right down to it: I don't really think that there's anything out there beyond what we can do for each other, and attributing importance to things outside of that gets under my skin quickly-- I'm too arrogant/self-centered at times to remember that things that don't have value to me can still have values to others.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm really interested in Burning Man but I think I'd end up drowning some self-help guru in a tub of his own body paint, so it's probably for the best if I don't go.
onewheelwizzard:
I'm glad this thread is active again! I like it a lot, and I would've felt silly beating it to death myself, so it's nice to have some activity that allows for actual boarding and not just jerking off.
--- Quote from: Alex C on 13 Aug 2009, 15:23 ---I don't really give a crap about art, ... My attitude is pretty similar to that of a cartoonishly strict secular humanist, when it comes right down to it: I don't really think that there's anything out there beyond what we can do for each other, and attributing importance to things outside of that gets under my skin quickly-- I'm too arrogant/self-centered at times to remember that things that don't have value to me can still have values to others.
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Wait, you're humanist but you don't give a shit about art? I don't understand. I always figured humanism was all about art. I can't think of anything more humanist than art, come to think of it. Is there specific art that you do attach value to personally? Where does that value come from?
jhocking:
I couldn't make it through Lollapalooza last year, I would definitely die at Burning Man.
Alex C:
Art doesn't have an immediate, practical value to others in most cases; I generally view art as shit I think is fairly pretty and stuff that isn't. Whenever I create something, I always feel like it was an utterly masturbatory exercise when I'm finished, so perhaps it's better to say that I don't give a crap about creating any more art. Of course, I feel this way about an awful lot of things I do (trust me, this definitely applies to my forum posting and internet use in general); art is merely a noteworthy case because unlike some of my other time wasters people concede the activity a certain degree of legitimacy because it's viewed as a creative venture. Basically, I always kinda feel like I could be doing better, so I suspect there'd be some angst involved following a week in which I wandered the desert helping people make their vehicles look like mythical creatures. That said, I'd still value that more than I'd value a lot of my other activities; I do like interacting with other people, after all, it's just that at this point "What should I value?" is a question I'm not sure I really know the answer to.
Trust me, I don't pretend to consider any of what I just typed to be necessarily well-adjusted, but when I stop to actually question the things I do with my life that's what I come up with.
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