was set on fire earlier than scheduled. The arsonist, an actor and writer who is active in the San Francisco arts scene and recently portrayed Hunter S. Thompson in a play, is charged for the sabotage. Teams of volunteers are racing against the clock to build another man to burn as scheduled. AP, thread
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This really pisses me off. Destruction has become the new creativity, and I'm angry and sad that people in our society feel so disempowered, so helpless, and so fearful that they now think destroying the earnest work of others is some kind of valuable cultural act in itself.
yeah, what a jerk.
Hunter S. Thompson would kick this guy's ass.
rules and laws at a counter-culture event....anyone else see the irony
i dunno... i think it's sort of interesting. physically the burning man would've burned anyway so it's not like there's an appreciable loss of property. so ultimately what he destroyed was the anticipation and the spectacle itself.
so how do you charge someone for destroying a spectacle? it's like him launching all the july 4th fireworks 12 hours early before anyone gets to see them.
Exactly, ACfA. He stole other people's anticipation and the shared experience of watching it burn together as an act of community (same would be true of the fireworks example).
And that action is destructive - and it's theft - and it's selfich assholery.
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