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Any of you lot going this year? I've never been, I'd always kind of thought that this was another commercial festival or disorganised doof, but they've got this whole no-commerce, gift-economy, crowd-participation thing going on that I'm a bit fascinated by & am interested to check out. Would be cool to meet some more of you people!

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I went to the very first one near Bellingen and did not enjoy it. As a local it seemed really "clicky" and non-inclusive. Apparently some pretty dodgy stuff went on there but the structure of the event and those in charge have changed since (and apparently for the better)...

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It's a lovely forest this time of year. This started up the same time I left the area so never went along... But my non-doofer occasional tripper mates went last year and thoroughly hated it and wished they'd accessed the situation before they were stuck there for the evening lol. 

 

Theres a lot of pot heads, footy and meat pies out that way, I always wondered who the mob were who started it. It def wasn't any of the local doof putter onerers

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Yeah since it essentially seems to be self-organised by a collection of anarchist types, I can see sooooo many ways for that kind of thing to go wrong, but the thought that has piqued my curiosity is: what if it doesn't? And since it's been going for something like five (?) years now, something must be working.

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On 17/06/2016 at 3:50 PM, theuserformallyknownasd00d said:

It's a lovely forest this time of year. This started up the same time I left the area so never went along... But my non-doofer occasional tripper mates went last year and thoroughly hated it and wished they'd accessed the situation before they were stuck there for the evening lol. 

 

Theres a lot of pot heads, footy and meat pies out that way, I always wondered who the mob were who started it. It def wasn't any of the local doof putter onerers

 

 

So what do you do for a living?

 

I'm a doof putter onerers.

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the first one was bound to be underwhelming, i remember it being discussed at oztrance. 

 

it isn't a doof nor tries to be, which i guess in many ways is a major positive especially if you're a bit ummm.. "post-doof" as most of us get with age

 

the website goes on about inclusiveness a great deal, inclusiveness is good but there will be cliques anywhere you go i guess, maybe the trick is not to play that game but transcend it and just be a really chill and accepting mofo :D  "oh those guys are cooler than me, ok that's cool"

 

i can imagine it being pretty great maybe but it would all be new to me, i've never gone to things like woodford folk festival, EGA etc closest for me would be the old earth freq parties but you need to sell your kidney to buy a ticket to that and burning seed is probably the same (i didn't check)

 

but i dunno.  the page linked is very interesting but for instance it talks about decommercialisation, that's cool, interesting, but i kinda think commerce is a wonderful thing personally.  it doesn't have to dominate every aspect of society but it's usually a good thing, it's essential.

 

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