Monday, September 20, 2010  Burning With Desire  Burning With
Desire  In Nevada's Black Rock Desert, it is better to be
awesome than rich  Posted on September 13th, 2010 by Jon Evans
I'm just back from Burning Man, the surreal festival of 50,000
artists, anarchists, hippies, ravers, engineers, and gawkers who
gather annually in Nevada's Black Rock Desert to build a
temporary city, throw the world's biggest party, and show off
their latest artistic creations. Whatever you may have heard
about the bacchanal is probably true… but there's more to it
than that.  The event's ephemeral metropolis, Black Rock City ­
one of Nevada's five largest urban areas, during the week that
it exists ­ defies all rational economic analysis. Even its
least-involved citizens spend about $300 for an entrance ticket,
and much more to carry their own food, water, and shelter to and
from one of Earth's most barren pieces of real estate. Those who
construct their own art, technology, and/or theme camps ­
playgrounds for passersby, esse