You too can be part of a corporate-sponsored viral video craze

So the gray lady wrote this silly article about the hyping of the 25th aniversary of thriller. To be honest, I didn't see that many things on YouTube worth noting. But I did find this highly useful instructional video:

Not only does this video give a pretty accurate rendering of what you (yes you) will look like doing the dance, but it also captures the contemporary ethos. Dancin' Kim is nothing, if not totally rad.

Watching this a second time makes me think of John Ellis' lecture about Roberto Rosellini's made-for-tv movie Blaise Pascal. This movie begins with people chewing leaves and spitting into a bowl. We eventually come to understand that they are making some sort of salve for an injured leg. Rosellini's idea, says Ellis, was that the subjective experience by contemporaries of the past is extremely different from the subjective experience of the present; so different as to be totally alien. In Dancin' Kim's case its, like TOTALLY alien, omigawd!

I've basically followed this train of thought to its logical conclusion with my rad-awesome post about how the past is overrated. I remember writing that post, boy those were the days. Mint. Wicked.