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The Irrational Geographic Society has been forged anew to expand exploration of the worlds we think we've created for ourselves. As the boundaries between the real and the possible appear simultaneously wider and less concrete, it is time once again for explorers and cartographers - participants, spectators, and alleged burnouts alike - to chart the great unknown.
Cleanup Plan
Each theme camp participating in IGS will be responsible for their own trash, and will also assist other participants with theirs. We will also continue the tradition set by Camp Goatrodeo, described in their 2000 cleanup plan:
5. What is your plan for discussing and having members commit to helping with cleaning/packing up your camp?
[We] spent the last couple weeks haranguing people and applying the mind control ray, so now we've got firm commitments from some, and the rest are piles of brainless mush.
One of the more experienced and committed folks added "I'll even promise to do double cleanup work for someone who flakes or anything else needed on the actual playa if the requirement for constant pinging is relaxed."
We understand (and are dismayed) that some people aren't gonna be responsible no matter how many times they're reminded. So how about giving the rest of us a break? If the first forty or fifty reminders haven't gotten through, the next forty or fifty won't either. The need to leave no trace got through to everyone camping with us before we even bought our tickets.
While IGS's mind control ray is even more powerful, we prefer to encourage each theme camp to use their own.
Snarkiness aside, we wish to thank the Burning Man organizers for the reduction in haranguing and lack of a generally negative or accusatory tone thus far this year. The Irrational Geographic Society intends to live up to that trust, and we hope everyone else does too.
This site and some of the artwork herein is based upon previous work by James Home.
As you've surely guessed by now, the Irrational Geographic Society is not affiliated with the National Geographic Society, an institution for which we have always held the utmost respect.
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