Burning Man Festival&Creativity
After a long break I want to asses Burning Man Festival from a different aspect. Besides the fun, music activities offered during the festival there is a meaning hidden, a philosophy which I recently found out.
The distinctiveness of this festival is that you need to survive on your own. Bring your tent,food, water, booze. You need to think 360 degrees of everything because you can't buy anything during the festival. If you need something either you get it as a reward in the end of a game or as a consequence of friendships that you built. the festival creates its own community where every member have to participate creatively. Basically you can't be just a spectator but someone who participates actively and creatively. It's not important how creative or how talented you are but it's just building something. Everything in the festival are build by volunteers and there are no advertisements of the sponsors which is something rare considering the advertisement we face in our daily lives.

As the market gives us everything in a certain form as a society we stopped thinking and creating. Someone else is thinking for us, creating for us. We just buy what is offered in the market. When was the last time you bought something that you exactly pictured in your mind? Are we saturated from the market that much that many people needs a week away from it in a festival? Or many people moving to villages cultivate their own food? But the main question posed and trying to be triggered during this festival; when did we stop being creative?