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Traces the evolution of Burning Man, from its anarchic countercultural roots in San Francisco to the 80,000-person desert gathering it has become.
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00:04Imagine that you were put upon a desert.
00:08You're surrounded by thousands of other people.
00:12But together you form a city.
00:16In which anything that was,
00:19was more intensely so.
00:26Welcome to Burning Man!
00:30I'm here.
00:34Larry was our visionary.
00:36Burning Man was an outward expression of his desire
00:39to bring people together and create community.
00:42This place relies on one thing.
00:44Collective human joy.
00:49Burning Man is like a family.
00:51There is an unspoken love and caring here.
00:55I am a retired combat veteran.
00:58For me, this is a place of healing.
01:02You've faced a number of crises over the years.
01:06I've had to keep the organization alive through COVID.
01:11We've been rained out.
01:13We fix a thing and then we run into another crisis.
01:17There's protesters blocking the road.
01:19You're looking at civil unrest.
01:21I've been arguing for years that leadership should change.
01:25Things are messy.
01:26But everything we're doing is the survival of Burning Man.
01:30Live every burning like it was your last because...
01:34It just might be.
01:42Burning Man is this thing where people can do anything they want.
01:46However crazy it is.
01:50Maybe they've discovered something in themselves.
01:53Maybe they'll discover...
01:55A life.
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