I never believed in the "people see patterns where none exist" canard as has been used to explain away all too many 'coincidences', but on the other hand, at this juncture I feel that many who have gained some level of occult gnosis through exposure to decoding of the many ritualistic and symbolic events and high profile crimes through sites like VC and others, are indeed now looking for the symbolic under every stone and trying to detect patterns everywhere all the time, as if anticipating a pattern then going 'hunting' for it, rather than just observing from a detached point of view to see 'what is'.
One must exercise a great deal of discernment in the investigation of occult phenomena. In my opinion, from all I've seen, much of the speculation about Burning Man are at this stage jumping the gun and/or going overboard.
It's very easy to jump from one conspiracy to the next as if one were reading an engrossing true crime novel where you never know what's going to happen next, and getting lost in the story from the point of view of the protagonist and actively trying to 'solve' it all, but in reality engaged in a form of passive, almost trivial, entertainment. I'm not saying the subject of the occult and what the wizards behind the curtain are doing in the world is trivial, but that it can easily become trivialized if the basis for accumulating ever more knowledge about it becomes a subtle form of escapism, and that this very danger or 'trap' could be a larger meta narrative it is important to step back and give some consideration to. Just a word of caution, fwiw.