The festival’s 10 official principles, written by Mr. Harvey, include civic responsibility, communal effort, gifting and immediacy. Mr. Harvey saw a connection. “Both Burning Man and the internet make it possible to regather the tribe of mankind,” he told The Times in 1997. There may be whiskey bars and sandwich shops at Burning Man, but everything is free. “The heart can really expire under those conditions,” Mr. Harvey told Inc. magazine in 2012.

Source: New York Times April 29, 2018 01:41 UTC