{"id":147,"date":"2015-01-22T04:11:56","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T04:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tananburn.me\/blog\/?page_id=147"},"modified":"2015-02-17T03:48:57","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T03:48:57","slug":"community","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.tananburn.me\/blog\/faq-2\/community\/","title":{"rendered":"Community?"},"content":{"rendered":"

“It seems\u00a0Caravancicle<\/span> broke several of the ‘Ten Principles’.\u00a0 Will “Chateau Tananburn” address those issues?”<\/strong><\/p>\n

We ruffled some feathers (which were once banned as well, but now allowed) last year, and we are likely to ruffle a lot more in 2015. I am a firm believer in the saying “If you\u2019re not pissing someone off, you probably aren\u2019t doing anything important”.\u00a0 Let me be clear: I want to be self-important and I’m willing to piss people off to do it.<\/p>\n

As for the Ten Principles<\/a>, I can’t stress this enough:\u00a0 It is the “Ten Principles<\/a>“, not the “Ten Commandments”.\u00a0 There is a huge distinction that I feel is lost on people.\u00a0 When you break a Commandment, there is punishment.\u00a0 When you break a Principle, there is whining from the people who regret not breaking it first.\u00a0 I feel so strongly about this I bought my way onto the BMORG board (With promises, not cash.\u00a0 Decommodification in action!) in order to program this into Burning Man’s DNA.<\/p>\n

Don’t get me wrong, I applaud the people who are guided by the Ten Principles<\/a>.\u00a0 Without them, there would likely be no Burning Man that I can show off to my peers.\u00a0 Those people made Burning Man what it is:\u00a0 A unique cultural event with limitless commercial opportunities.<\/p>\n

Finally, we do have a plan for addressing people’s concerns that we violated their principles.\u00a0 As you can see from several posts and announcements on the Burning Man site, nothing we did was deemed unacceptable by the BMORG1<\/sup>. In fact, you may have noticed that there have been a few PR style posts explaining that camps like ours have always been there and that they are part of the fabric of the event.\u00a0 That’s how we move Mount Fuji: by convincing people it was someplace else all along.\u00a0 You can thank me, a few like-minded board members, and a couple of the ‘founders’ that we have been grooming into perfect yes-women and yes-men.\u00a0 You will see, we<\/em> are becoming the Future of Burning Man.<\/p>\n

1<\/sup> There was one dissenting voice, but the newly empowered board of directors fitted him with a shiny muzzle and it will be a long while before he’s allowed to bark again.\u00a0 Problem solved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“It seems\u00a0Caravancicle broke several of the ‘Ten Principles’.\u00a0 Will “Chateau Tananburn” address those issues?” We ruffled some feathers (which were once banned as well, but now allowed) last year, and we are likely to ruffle a lot more in 2015. I am a firm believer in the saying “If you\u2019re not pissing someone off, you … Continue reading Community?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":140,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[14,3,4,5,13,12],"class_list":["post-147","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-bm2015","tag-burningman","tag-caravancicle","tag-mirror-mirror","tag-ousttananbaum","tag-wtf"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P5ylUo-2n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tananburn.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tananburn.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tananburn.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tananburn.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tananburn.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.tananburn.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229,"href":"https:\/\/www.tananburn.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/147\/revisions\/229"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tananburn.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tananburn.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tananburn.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}