Why Awareness of Ephemerality Could Help Create a Better Society

The circle of life is omnipresent — reflecting on a Burn experience.

“Welcome to the real world”. This is what’s written on a small wooden sign that greets everyone upon entering the premises of AfrikaBurn, a BurningMan regional event in the Tankwa Karoo National Park in South Africa. What I initially considered a nice joke (the real world is the office, my Psych. PhD research, and my crammed apartment back home, right?) became a truth to me that gradually sucked me in and…