'"an experiment in community, art, radical self-expression, and radical self-reliance.” (None of these expressions really means anything, of course; they are just bywords for self-indulgence at another person’s expense.)'

Ah. So who can I get to pay my way to Burning Man?

Badly overwritten.

I love scathingly biased op-eds like this! You can tell he really enjoys describing his loathe.