Even a Dancing Fool Can be a Leader

March 8th, 2010 by zen

A big hat tip to John Robb for finding and posting this gem. I guess Nazism, the French and Russian Revolutions, the Spartacus Revolt and several world religions could all have been ignited by an inspired moment of interpretive dance:

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  1. Joseph Fouche:

    March 8th, 2010 at 4:37 am

    At last, the wisdom of the ages is revealed: if you can beat the principle that "white men can’t dance" into the population, revolution will always be averted.

  2. Purpleslog:

    March 8th, 2010 at 3:15 pm

    LOL!!!

  3. Curtis Gale Weeks:

    March 8th, 2010 at 4:09 pm

    Quite brilliant.

  4. Joey:

    March 8th, 2010 at 5:49 pm

    American revolution conspicuous by its absence….

  5. zen:

    March 8th, 2010 at 5:59 pm

    Ah, you caught that.  Heh.

  6. Joseph Fouche:

    March 8th, 2010 at 6:22 pm

    The Founding Fathers, being made of the purest marble, did not dance.

  7. Larry Dunbar:

    March 9th, 2010 at 6:13 am

    "The Founding Fathers, being made of the purest marble, did not dance."

    *
    But the first followers, we the people, did?

  8. Larry Dunbar:

    March 9th, 2010 at 6:17 am

    How is that possible, unless the first dance was an implicit instead of explicit image? The first fathers created an implicit image that we (still?) dance to?

  9. Joey:

    March 9th, 2010 at 12:00 pm

    Well the people, they partied didn’t they!

  10. Curtis Gale Weeks:

    March 9th, 2010 at 1:03 pm

    They partied like it was 1776.
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    "Maybe, he thinks, it is like the Noh. Whenever
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    the script says dances, whatever the actor does next
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    is a dance.  If he stands still, he is dancing."
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    –from Jack Gilbert’s "To See if Something Comes Next"

  11. Schmedlap:

    March 9th, 2010 at 3:24 pm

    I guess I missed it. All that I saw was the last Presidential election.