However, one event caught my attention- the "radical honesty" parlor and workshop. This piqued my interest more than anything that didn't involve sexy body parts at burning man. Being on the edge of the city, I missed the parlor, and the workshop was bordering on lame: it was more of a philosophical discussion of honesty, and what I gathered, the parlor was heavily mediated... Not much on the social lab aspect, which is what I wanted.
One fellow burner was equally disappointed in the "fakkir challenge", which turned out be holding yoga poses for as long as you can. He came in fully suited up to prove his machoness by sitting on a bed of hot wood chips, or something of the like.
[personally, I think holding a yoga for 3 hours on end is way on the far end of adeptness and ego challenge for me, but to each their own]
As we blathered about my wanting a camp for tweaking the parameters of social interaction, and him wanting a camp designed for challenging people's freudian egos, we came up with "Super Action Challenge Camp" - the camp that will make Burning Man tourists rue the day they set foot into it... Burning Man came and went this year, with the usual glitz, mass nudity, and the occasional "holy fuck, I can't beleive I just saw that".
However, one event caught my attention- the "radical honesty" parlor and workshop. This piqued my interest more than anything that didn't involve sexy body parts at burning man. Being on the edge of the city, I missed the parlor, and the workshop was bordering on lame: it was more of a philosophical discussion of honesty, and what I gathered, the parlor was heavily mediated... Not much on the social lab aspect, which is what I wanted.
One fellow burner was equally disappointed in the "fakkir challenge", which turned out be holding yoga poses for as long as you can. He came in fully suited up to prove his machoness by sitting on a bed of hot wood chips, or something of the like.
[personally, I think holding a yoga for 3 hours on end is way on the far end of adeptness and ego challenge for me, but to each their own]
As we blathered about my wanting a camp for tweaking the parameters of social interaction, and him wanting a camp designed for challenging people's freudian egos, we came up with "Super Action Challenge Camp" - the camp that will make Burning Man tourists rue the day they set foot into it...
Here are some of the ideas so far:
1) Mad Social Scientist Radical Honesty sessions:
This camp is intended as safe space for people to have interactions without social filters. Ground rules: no outright attacking, otherwise you have to honestly speak what is on your mind, NO FILTERS, NO SECRETS. One hour in a room with a half dozen other strangers. Have you ever wondered what people REALLY think? Have you ever wondered: do people think I'm ugly? Do people think I'm fat? How do people really find my demeanor? How much do I really filter when I communicate? What can you realistically get away with?
2) Bound Up Dating Service:
Line up, 2 total stranger MOTAS are tied/handcuffed together, and then sent out in the wilds of the desert for several hours, left to figure out how to interact in a very physically restricted space. Safety is OFF- so you are on your own figuring out how to go to the bathroom, etc. How fast can you figure out how to cooperate when you don't have a choice?
3) Black Rock City Fakir Challenge
*Everyone* has walked on coal at some point or another. But have you sewed your mouth shut? Been strung up by the nipples?
4) Fat Rocky City Party
Smash the beauty myth!
Join the FATSOS at Super Action Challenge Camp for a pot luck Food Orgy and Phat Ass Funk DJ, Friday night from 7:00 pm till Homey cums...
Say it loud, I'm FAT and I'm Proud
BABY GOT BACK KARAOKE COMPETITION ! ! !
More to cummmmmmm.....!
Posted by Da Mystik Homeboy at September 12, 2003 01:26 PM