Burning Man co-founder: The festival has lost its soul

I co-founded Burning Man. The festival has lost its soul

In a candid essay, one of Burning Man's three founders reflects on the festival's evolution from a small anarchist gathering in the Nevada desert to a global phenomenon. Though he hasn't attended since 1996, he's watched from afar as the event he helped create became something unrecognizable—a loss of its original punk-industrial spirit and anarchist ethos that he finds deeply saddening.