Wanna Get Naked and Drink Absinthe?

Burning Man Can't Be a Way of Life--But It Says a Lot About How We Live

A few years ago, a young man tested Burning Man’s ethos as a “gifting economy” by stripping naked at the gate and walking into the makeshift city of 50,000 people with literally nothing.

Within hours, he’d been given clothing and a tent and was fully supplied for the week. By the end of Burning Man, he’d “gifted” back everything he’d received and walked out naked again. This was designed as a work of art and, as word spread around Black Rock City, it became an impressive statement about the generosity of …