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We'll all be a lot happier once you acquire a clue.
-- Thom 'Starky' Stark
Do Your Part! Complain About Burning Man!
1999-08-05 19:47:01
So, if you're a Burner and you got a complaint, it's your DUTY to let the people at the Burning Man Project KNOW about it!
I recently had this great revelation about Burning Man. It's a little known fact that the 5th thing on the list of What Burners Like (after Fire, Sex, Booze, and Drugs) is Complaining about Burning Man. I engage in this practice quite often, myself.
[LET ME QUICKLY ADD that there are few things in life that I love more than Burning Man. It is a great, great thing, and like I pointed out before, I'm really looking forward to this year's Burning Man 99 and many, many Burning Mans to come. So, don't get all mad that I'm a big Burning Man hater or something.]
So I was crabbing about some of the new rules for this year to one of my friends who works for the Project, and she gave me a REAL GOOD IDEA. She said, "If there is so much discontent, why aren't people contacting us? All they have to do is send email, pick up the phone, write us letters, it's not hard."
Well, DUH! You could have knocked me over with a HAMMER. Of course! If you've got PROBLEMS with the PROJECT, send a LETTER to the PROJECT. Dahoy! That makes perfect sense!
I mean, that's the only way that congressmen, TV networks and newspaper editors know what people like and dislike: letters from us, just regular people. That's how they know how to make decisions and stuff. So that's the idea! SEND LETTERS!
I mean, everybody I've talked to has at least some beef with Burning Man. Like these:
There's lots more, obviously. Like I said, everybody's got a beef.
Of course, nothing here is worth not going to Burning Man for. Hell, BURNING MAN IS GREAT!
The thing is, if we don't TELL the Burning Man Organization, then they'll never KNOW that these are problems. At the very least, they need to have that data in order to make good decisions in the future. So what I'm saying is: if you've got a beef, SEND IN YOUR COMPLAINTS! They DON'T already know! Seriously! It's the ONLY WAY to make Burning Man better.
Here's some contact info I've got. If you know of better contact info, let me know. The only mail address I can find is the ticket sales address:
Burning Man
P.O. Box 420572
San Francisco, CA 94142-0572
The telephone number is:
415.TO.FLAME
The email address for complaints is:
Complaints: complaints@burningman.com
Send some complaints NOW, while you're thinking about it! Let the folks know what ticks you off! They need our input and our help. So, do it!
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