A few weeks ago on the blog, we featured an appreciation of Marie Kare’s short-shorts, a series called How to Celebrate National Days. As additional bonus content, in honor of National Dance Day (the final Saturday in July), here’s one more installment of the series:
National Dance Day
July 28, 2018 (Last Saturday in July)
Recognize the profound philosophical treatise that is Men Without Hats’ “Safety Dance,” when taken in the imperative:
Dance if you want to. [Exhibit self-determined behavior.]
Leave your friends behind. Your friends don’t dance, and if they don’t dance, well, they’re no friends of mine. [Abandon those who are content with heteronomy, abhor autonomy, and are an impediment to your self-realization.]
Go where you want to. [Again, exhibit self-determination with a disregard for societal boundaries.]
A place where they’ll never find. [In particular, explore concepts “friends” (i.e., normals) would purposely ignore.]
Act like you come from out of this world. Leave the real one far behind. [Cast off entirely the trappings of so-called “reality”; it is of no use to you now.]
You can dance.
Now, that is some Allegory of the Cave shit right there.
(Piece appears with permission from Marie Kare; originally appeared in How to Celebrate National Days: Instructions for Enjoying Pseudoholidays, Volume 1)
