For unity of song and dance

By Leo He Zhao

Zizek and his kind of Western academic leftists have a lot of good things to offer, but when they talk about dance music or dancing they are on a Creationist Museum level of utter stupidity.

They talk of collectivity, conviviality, connection, and empathy, but tragically are hermetically sealed from entire horizons of meaning which is rooted in such things, in social dancing cultures where sisterhood, brotherhood, and solidarity have a physical basis in the creative movement and mingling of bodies.

And this is of course the result of emerging from European cultural traditions entirely dominated by the proto-bourgeois aristocracy, with their "classical" cannon which demonises rhythm-focused musics and suppresses social dancing; and intellectual traditions which proceed from a divorce of mind from body.

And of course these sad, myopic, provincial, ignorant, and arrogant Euro-centrics think dancing is simply not that important a topic, like men born without testicles claiming, as if it's a universal truth, that sex is only a "set of obscene gestures".