Science fiction and dick jokes at the Burning Man Global Technology Leadership Conference. Nano-tech brain drugs that connect brains together. Jacking the internet directly into the back of your skull. Dosing monkeys with cocaine. “We’re all in a giant machine MRI machine and the CIA is reading your thoughts. No. They’re just reading your emails and Facebook posts”.
We covered this earlier in
Transhumanist Former Cult Leader Says Burners Responsible for Innovation
Now we have video of the full presentation from the 2016 GLC. It’s entertaining, but what is the real message here?
How can Burning Man change the world? That’s the topic of this 40 minute talk, supposedly. The answer? Art projects give you a sense of awe. He took everything he learned at Burning Man and channeled it into his art (writing science fiction) because he wanted to change the world in some way. There’s about 20 seconds of this around the 20 minute mark.
He came up with a formula to explain it.
The meaning of Burning Man is the change it causes in the world.
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“We are the ones we have been waiting for. That is it” got him a standing ovation.
“Tom Clancy meets Burning Man”. For anyone who watched Shadow History of Burners – Part 2, I note that the Singularity University where this guy is a professor is located at Moffett Field.
This year’s Keynote is an interesting follow up to last year’s talk on Syntheism – creating artificial gods – at the European leadership conference
“it’s not a cult”, someone yells from the back as he is describing how Burning Man is like a religion. One we’re creating ourselves…right?
The creation of Artificial Gods vision was preceded over the course of many months by Caveat Magister’s series on the Death of God
Burning Book Club – preface – “Atheism isn’t as easy as it looks”
Burning Book Club – Chapter 1 – Turns out Money can Buy Enlightenment
Burning Book Club – Chapter 2 – (Part 1) A Mythology Pro-Tip for Atheists
Burning Book Club – Chapter 2 (part 2) – Group Think and Aesthetics
Burning Book Club – Chapter 3 – Why do bad things happen to good Burners? (SPOILER ALERT!)
Burning Book Club – Chapter 3 (part 2) – Money and Revolutions
This year the continuing saga at the BJ is Re-imagining the relationship between art and money.
Let’s not forget Burning Man Social Alchemist Bear Kittay’s Transhumanist song that accompanied Marian’s 2014 Tokyo TED Talk
“Surrender to the memes.”
If our minds are the workshop, then who is the Da Vinci? Larry? Stuart Mangrum? Who are the patrons? If we’re just making art, how come the Leadership Conference talks about jacking our brains into the Internet in a presentation titled “can Burning Man change the world?
What does any of this have to do with the Burning Man Project?
Maybe the ideas that they have been presenting over three years of conferences is their vision for the way Burning Man changes the world. The death of god, replacing it with a new artificially created occult digital god. Humans replaced with brains in jars, connected to the Matrix. “Be your own app”.
Sounds a lot like the Alphabet Agency business plan.