National Dance Day
July 29, 2017 (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.

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Links & Learning

Why dancing? Like, why do we do it?

• Why Do We Like to Dance – And Move to the Beat? – Scientific American
• Why Do People Dance – The Guardian
• History of dance on Wikipedia

Wanna learn some stuff about philosophy?

• Ancient Philosophy: Plato & His Predecessors – Coursera
• Philosophy for Beginners – Oxford University Podcasts
• The Allegory of the Cave by Plato: Summary, Analysis & Explanation – Study.com
• A diagram of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. (source):

What about your friends? (TLC Reference!)

• Why I Secretly Hate My Friends and I Bet You Do Too – The Telegraph
• If You Don’t Like Your Friends, Get New Ones – Thought Catalog
• Why You and Your Friends Don’t Click Anymore – Real Simple

Men Without Hats’ Safety Dance

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You can read if you want to. You can leave your friends behind. Because we wrote a book called How to Celebrate National Days and it’s in paperback and ebook on Amazon.