DANCE LIKE AN IDIOT FOR WORLD PEACE

All my Facebook friends will have received an invitation to the group Dance Like An Idiot For World Peace. For those who did me the honour of joining, thank you.

Now at first glance you may think I am just having a laugh with this. But in actual fact, I genuinely believe that if everybody in the world were able to shake off their fears and inhibitions in the way that Myles and I have done, world peace would indeed ensue.

Fear stifles creativity in humans and lack of creativity means that human problems are not solved. Think about the conflicts in the world, two bitterly opposed sides with viewpoints that have barely changed for centuries. Why have they barely changed? Because everyone is scared to do something different. Scared to stand up and say 'Hang on a minute, we've been doing this for hundreds of years, and nothing has changed. Maybe let's brainstorm some brand new ideas?'

Everyone is too scared of 'what others might think' if they stand up and challenge the (LONG) established views of their country or their religion with brand new and perhaps 'weird' ideas.

WELL FUCK THAT!! FUCK WHAT OTHER PEOPLE MIGHT THINK. FUCK BEING SCARED.

Let us shake off inhibition and live proper, happy, uninhibited lives. Let us be beautiful creative individuals and use our creativity to solve the problems that can easily be solved if enough people just have the balls to say 'FUCK THIS SHIT'

The dance like an idiot idea grew out of one that my brother came up with, which was to spend the defense budget of every country on chocolate cake and hot tubs. You can't be in a bad mood when you have been in a hot tub for half an hour and then had some chocolate cake. So give the troubled hot spots of the world hot tubs. Give them chocolate cake. See what happens. It has to be better than getting some immensely rich folks who nobody really trusts to sit round a table and talk about it. At the very least make them do their negotiations in hot tubs. See how the men are smiling in the picture below!



Maybe a little off the wall. Maybe we should stop people starving first. OK. Good point. Any idea how much those defense budgets come to? Enough for food and hot tubs I'll wager.

I am not saying that idiotic dancing will directly stop all conflict. It is just a medium through which people can come to realise that all the fear and anger that they build up inside and eventually direct at one or more groups of 'outsiders' is not necessary at all and can be shed. It can be replaced with love and fun and friendship.

I really urge you all to just try it and see how you feel afterwards.



Already Myles and I appear to have a fine fledgling friendship in the making. The group unites people from several countries already and I have myself some other fine new friends. Well worth 5 minutes of silliness, I can assure you.

Dance Like An Idiot For World Peace

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DARREN SILLETT

In every school year there is a kid who is a little bit dim. I am not talking about a kid with diagnosable problems, but one who is just a bit of a thickie with as much common sense as a hedgehog crossing the road.

Two years above my school year, in the same year as my brother John, was a young man who was so wonderfully stupid that he became a legend. His name was Darren Sillett.

Sillett was so famously stupid that to this day (23 three years after he left the school), I am reliably informed that kids are still using the term 'Sillett' as an insult for both their friends and enemies. When I was still at school, even the teachers used to use it.

"Smithy, you are a total Sillett!"

My favourite story about Darren was about the day in Home Economics class or 'Cooking' as it was more widely known. The general lesson format was that you took home a recipe the week before and had to bring in all the ingredients on it at the beginning of the next lesson, so that you could make the recipe in class. One particular recipe had the ingredient item '3 tablespoons of warm water'.

Darren carefully measured the water out at home and brought it to school in a thermos flask to make sure that it stayed warm.

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