Seventy thousand weirdos descend on the Nevada desert this week to bump uglies, welter in filth, and worship Moloch during America&#8217;s largest annual religious gathering: Burning Man. The festival began as a summer solstice bonfire ritual in 1986, when Bay Area artists &#8220;spontaneously&#8221; burned an eight-foot-tall wooden man, as well as a smaller wooden dog, in effigy. Where one spontaneously discovers a giant wicker man, and why one subsequently chooses to incinerate him is anybody&#8217;s guess. The ritual mirrored an identical ancient Druidic sacrifice described by Julius Caesar in his Commentary on the Gallic War, though Burning Man&#8217;s founders claim ignorance as to the custom&#8217;s origin. Today that solstice bonfire has grown into a week-long, annual bacchanal of sex, drugs, and pagan spirituality.
History repeats itself, per Marx, first as tragedy, then as farce. In the ancient tragedy, pagan Celts filled a giant wicker dummy with living men and burned them all alive. In the modern farce, besotted hippies ignite an empty wooden figure, a fitting symbol for an empty culture. Burning Man&#8217;s organizers <a href="https://journal.burningman.org/2017/07/black-rock-city/participate-in-brc/participate-in-radical-ritual/">describe</a> the wooden statue, which they house &#8220;in a temple that is dedicated to the Golden Spike,&#8221; as being &#8220;like every one of us.&#8221; Ironically, festival organizers describe the man&#8217;s incineration as an act of &#8220;radical self-expression,&#8221; when in fact the ritual amounts to radical self-annihilation.

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