The Consequences of Disco

While expressing his intense desire to become shod with footwear suitable for dancing, Wayne Casey, boogie-prone leader of K.C. and the Sunshine Band, fell off a stage a few days ago and sustained major head injuries.

In other disco-related foolishness, this video clip (45MB) began making the rounds a few weeks ago, and features adult human beings in an enthusiastic 70s-era remake of The Ventures' 'Apache'. If you're feeling blue I recommend trying to mimic the shoulder movements and wide smiles of the keyboard player while stopped at a red light.

This raises the question - can't we develop some sort of chemical warfare agent that causes unrestrained dancing? Imagine two B52s cutting across the blue skies of Pyongyang, the first one dispensing some kind of nerve gas, and the second thumping out 'No Parking On the Dance Floor' from industrial sized speakers. All of the folks in the street, citizen and soldier alike, would throw down their weapons and the baskets of tree bark they have collected to feed their family and begin twirling in the streets and throwing each other in the air.

It seems likely that democracy would be the inevitable result.