Michael Michaels, one of Burning Man’s original founders2 (and known as “Danger Ranger” at the event), explains it this way: “At Burning Man, we’ve found a way to break out of the box that confines us. What we do, literally, is take people’s reality and break it apart. Burning Man is a transformation engine—it has hardware and it has software, you can adjust it and tweak it. And we’ve done that. We take people out to
