“What we have to do is make progress in the quality of connection between people, not the quantity of consumption.”

—  Larry Harvey

"The Wonderful, Weird Economy of Burning Man" in The Atlantic (18 August 2014) https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/08/the-wonderful-weird-economics-of-burning-man/376108/
Context: We don’t think the world can be Woodstock … Who’d think the world could be a perpetual carnival? But we do think that the world could rediscover values that used to be automatically produced by culture but aren’t anymore because culture is subject to the commodification in our world. Everything is sold back to us, targeted to demographics. What we have to do is make progress in the quality of connection between people, not the quantity of consumption.

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