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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.

— Larry Harvey on Commodification

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "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." in the context of "Larry Harvey, "The Wonderful, Weird Economy of Burning Man" in The Atlantic (18 August 2014)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Larry Harvey

About Larry Harvey

Larry Harvey (11 January 1948 – 28 April 2018) was an American artist, philanthropist and activist who was the main co-founder of the Burning Man event, along with his friend Jerry James.