Is Burning Man Still Burning Man if Billionaires Are Invited to the Party?

Is Burning Man Still Burning Man if Billionaires Are Invited to the Party?

When Burning Man first began in 1986, it was as a San Francisco beach bonfire. Held on the summer solstice with just a few people in attendance, the event centered around the burning of a scrap wood-based effigy, an act one of the founders has described as a spontaneous act of “radical self-expression.” As the years passed, the beach bonfire—and its effigy—grew, and when the city of San Francisco denied the organizers a permit in 1990, a series …