Burning Man

At the tail end of summer, 40,000 men and women will journey to the Black Rock Desert in Nevada for a 10 day festival. Some go to celebrate a form of freedom which echoes back to the garden of Eden, "naked and not ashamed". Others will spend long hours taking in the elaborate works of art, constructed by current artists most often commenting on "man's search for significance".
Burning Man is the natural result of living in a toxic culture.
In America, we have both freedom and the illusion of freedom.
We are able to make choices everyday which exercise our freedoms, and yet, by and large, we still find ourselves bound by cultural standards, governmental controls, and prohibitive belief systems.
If it isn't our own internal reality which places us behind bars, it is another's by which we are offended.
Burning Man is an arena in which people choose culturally unacceptable means of self-liberation - a way to detox from the dissatisfaction of living in a lonely world of laws and limits.
And off we go, to the desert, to look for our significance.
Does anything change when we get there? Anything change when we return?