Greg Ellifritz: Surviving Burning Man

[Yung]

Link: https://www.activeresponsetraining.n...ng-burning-man

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Rest assured, I was prepared to ascend the throne as king hippie barbarian warlord should the conditions have degenerated into a Lord of the Flies style event. That didn’t happen. Almost everyone had lots of fun and took good care of everyone else. Don’t believe the media hype. It was by far the easiest apocalypse I’ve ever experienced.



With that said, I did learn some lessons as I survived the flood, mud, and chaos. Read on as I share those lessons as well as the action plans I have implemented to mitigate such problems in the future.

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[Clusterfrack]

First rule of surviving Burning Man: don’t go to Burning Man.

[Totem Polar]

First rule of surviving Burning Man: don’t go to Burning Man.

To be fair, the same could be said of BJJ class.

[Clusterfrack]

To be fair, the same could be said of BJJ class.

If I had to roll with smelly hippies on drugs, I wouldn’t go.

[Totem Polar]

If I had to roll with smelly hippies on drugs, I wouldn’t go.

This is actually a thing at some otherwise good schools, in my limited experience.

[GlockenSpiel]

King hippie barbarian warlord is good work, if you can get it.

[TheNewbie]

Reminds me of when they attempted to go there in an episode of Reno 911.


Personally I would prefer to visit Albertsons.

[PNWTO]

This is actually a thing at some otherwise good schools, in my limited experience.

That’s kind of 10th Planet’s whole brand image, right?

[Half Moon]

King hippie barbarian warlord is good work, if you can get it.

Ahh, but uneasy lies the head that wears the hippie barbarian warlord crown. Or so I've heard...

"When I was a fighting man, the kettle drums they beat
The people scattered gold dust before my horse’s feet
But now I am a great king, the people hound my track
With poison in my wine cup, and daggers at my back"

"What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft, and the lie
I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky
The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing
Rush in and die, dogs – I was a man before I was a king"

"Gleaming shell of an outworn lie, fable of Right divine
You gained your crowns by heritage, but Blood was the price of mine
The throne that I won by blood and sweat, by Crom, I will not sell
For promise of valleys filled with gold, or threat of the Halls of Hell"

[fatdog]

A trip to our local, very rural, Dollar General on Saturday is as close to Burning Man as I care to experience at this point.

You would probably have to live in rural LA, AR, AL, FL panhandle or MS to fully understand what I am talking about.

I do however have a plan to become a minor despot in the general area of extreme NE Shelby County/extreme SE St. Clair County, Alabama at some point if we ever hit the big meltdown.