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Originally posted by LessinSF
As RT said, for some it is a sense of community building, where everyone get along, there's no money, there are no "hang-ups," yada, yada, yada. For others, it is art-driven - they even get grants and shit. For others, it is the eight-day party. Some people do say it changed their life. I clearly didn't "get it" in that sense. I found that all a bunch of stoner mumbo-jumbo. But there is a sense of release - that anything goes (within certain boundaries), that you can wear outlandish costumes, take drugs/get drunk/fall down/sleep in someone else's camp or out of the playa, get spanked in public while wearing women's panties (or whatever turns you on), wander around, check people out, and wake up and do it again the next day. It is more of a bacchanal than your average rave with far less risk.

From the picture it seems pretty spread out. Lots of space. I expected it to look very crowded. But it seemed that that there is a lot of walking involved. In addition, was there considerable dust?