The Muddy Schadenfreude of Burning Man
Why so many love to hate the dusty festival
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This week, America has come together in a collective schadenfreude of Burning Man. The festival became the latest victim of global warming, which turned the desert into a muddy bath and required the 70,000 participants to shelter in place. But more vicious than the torrential rains turned out to be the journalists, writers, and all kinds of disgruntled intellectuals, whose thinly veiled disgust of the event has finally found an outlet. In a heartwarming case of media unity, publications of opposite political leanings joined forces in a gleeful stoning of the “infamous sex-and-drug-fueled festival in the Nevada desert”. (NY Post)