Burning Man and IF?

I am taking some advice....and taking a vacation from heavy IF reporting on the front lines and going to spin a yarn about something else...

The town that I grew up in is probably best known for two things - the annual rodeo that fills our streets with horsecrap for a week in September and a certain brand of wool blankets. However, there is a sub-culture that exists that you only hear whispers about among the hippies that hide in the mountains. They are the Burning Man Alumni. For such a small town, you would be surprised to see the heavy traffic in the well-worn tracks that lead from Eastern Oregon to the Nevada desert. So having heard rumors (and many entertaining stories that are on the verge of legality) of this festival growing up, I was equally surprised to see it come across in the literature of the profession that I have chosen. This article is from the current edition of the Intellectual Freedom Round Table of the ALA and is worth the next 5 minutes of your life. (click on the latest issue)

What caught my attention the most was not the fact of the individuals involved/profiled, but the statement that IFRT made in comparing the activities of the two seemingly unlikely roommates on the IF front.
The Burning Man mission statement reads - "Our intention is to generate society that connects each individual to his or her creative powers, to participation in community, to the larger realm of civic life, and to the even greater world of nature that exists beyond society."
Now doesn't that just scream IF? WTF? Sure, there are some catchy library speak phrases in there that can be parsed out and doled to the intellectual freedomistas - aka "civic life," "society" something or other...but to make the leap from that to a blind endorsement of IFRT support of Burning Man is even too much for this reformed University of Oregon dropout. (There is a reason why the Dead would always pass through Eugene!)
There are some pretty enticing topics in this edition, and it is worth it to read about the Pornography Panel as well. But if this is the core of what I have to inspire me this week, then I think I'll hit the snooze button one more time.