Starlink puts the last nail in the Burning Man coffin

Whatever the embers can still be burned from the original spirit of Burning Man hold for expensive life while the Silicon Valley tries to turn them off for good. According to the Wall Street Journal, the latest dagger delivered to the Bohemia event transformed into Bohemia has become a billionaire Larping event, Car Starlink by Elon Musk now provides an internet connection to those who present the Wall Street Journal.

A regular from Burning Man named Kevin Levezu, a photographer, runs a camp in the temporary city called Iforgot. This year, he presented a new feature at The Outpost: Wifi. With a Starlink terminal, he has set up internet access that forces participants to offer a sacrifice if they want to use it. According to WSJ, one day, the burners had the possibility of taking a photo of whiskey or being spared before accessing the Internet – a price that was apparently paid frequently.

The idea of ​​disconnecting to Burning Man had decreased long before the Levezu hotspot appeared because the cellular service began to reach the distant parts of the desert of Nevada. In 2018, SFGATE published a story on burners moving the fact that cell reception had become so good, which allowed people to facilitate the ceremony and play Pokémon during the day. There were even companies at the time that offered Party Internet 4G poles to participants so that they could remain connected.

But the Starlink satellites have really put a brake on the idea of ​​fleeing, bringing people to come together in the desert so as not to be together, but to scroll. Levezu told the newspaper that a person spent five hours a day in his camp, using the Starlink connection to manage their business remotely.

The reality is that whatever the connection that burns man, the radical principles of inclusion, autonomy and self-expression began to rot when the state of Silicon Valley began to appear and to coopte everything, by transforming it into a luxury event which costs thousands of people to assist and has created an entire micro-economy around.

Musk said one day that Burning Man “is the Silicon Valley”. Tyler Winklevoss called his time to the “Spiritual Experience” event. Mark Zuckerberg stolen via the helicopter, which should tell you how much he understood the concept. All these guys have left the event based on the idea of ​​decomdification to direct operations of several billion dollars that have pushed the long -standing residents of their home, based on cheap and exploitation work practices and destroy land and the environment in the name of “progress”. They are not adapted to the Dome orgy, whether in peace.