The famous annual Burning Man Festival in Black Rock Desert, Nevada has announced that it will require all participants to be vaccinated in order to enter the festival for 2021, should the event take place.
“Burning Man hasn’t committed to whether an event will happen, but, if it does, organizers have decided this much: vaccines will be required…. Organizers have not decided if the organization will require additional testing.”
This is an interesting position to take for a festival that is supposedly about experiencing extreme freedom. Of course, many people will celebrate the idea, and those who disagree will likely be disregarded as anti-science heretics. Even though the event is held in a desert, there is plenty of fresh air and sunlight (which destroys Covid-19 virus)... people will also likely be mandated to wear masks too.
The festival goes from an expression of extreme freedom... to showcasing how people can be turned into government controlled drones.
I have nightly firepits blazing on my acreage in rural Arizona. Neighbors and family are welcome to sit around drink some scotch or red wine and talk about life, joke and laugh and encourage and challenge each other. That's freedom.
Liberty must be grounded in social compacts and those must be grounded in innate God given notions of the dignity of man.
Libertine-ism - such as at Burning (wicker) Man - is not freedom its self deprecating bondage to debased desires impulses and actions that end up violating the dignity of man, no matter how consensual their revelries are.