In Elon Musk’s infamous formulation, Burning Man is Silicon Valley. Regardless of your feelings about that, its hypocrisy or at least hilarious irony, consider this: It all goes back to Dune.
LEDs and extra-obnoxious ravers weren’t the only changes that marked Burning Man’s evolution. The most obvious one, which Burkes is frankly tired of talking about, is the influx of tech workers and their showy CEOs. At this point, practically everybody in the Bay Area has been or knows somebody who’s been to Burning Man. There’s a professor at Stanford who studies the event’s influence on software development. In Elon Musk’s infamous formulation, Burning ManSilicon Valley.
In Elon Musk’s infamous formulation, Burning Man is Silicon Valley. Regardless of your feelings about that, its hypocrisy or at least hilarious irony, consider this: It all goes back tosearching for, and occasionally finding, themselves in deserts since at least the dawn of recorded history. To nonnatives, the landscape—its emptiness and deprivation—offers the possibility of spiritual transformation. Herbert, born in a temperate corner of Washington, was no exception.
Bless Blassingame. He thought the story of advancing sands “fairly limited in appeal,” sending Herbert spinning off to otherworldier realms. Convinced a novel might better accommodate his new ecological obsessions, he spent the next eight years writing and refining a 188,000-word epic set in a mythic, monstrous desert. It’s fair to call the appeal ofRoughly a 10th of Earth’s surface is desert; on Arrakis, of course, the proportion is bumped up a full order of magnitude, to a cool 100 percent.
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