The Hokey Pokey is What its All About

Thank you imabench,I will now say why the hokey pokey absolutely is what its all about.First, the lyrics of the song can be found here: http://www.metrolyrics.com...- The Law of Seriesover the past century, the Law of Series has been repeatedly observed without fail. It is a law which suggests that coincidence does not exist, and that all things that exist have a reason for existing. The Law of Series has also been called "meaningful coincidence".In the early 1900's, Dr. Paul Kammerer was a scientist who first discovered this phenomenon. He writes, "On July 28, 1915, I experienced the following progressive series: (a) my wife was reading about "Mrs Rohan", a character in the novel Michael by Hermann Bang; in the tramway she saw a man who looked like her friend, Prince Josef Rohan; in the evening Prince Rohan dropped in on us. (b) In the tram she overheard somebody asking the pseudo-Rohan whether he knew the village of Weissenbach at Lake Attersee, and whether it would be a pleasant place for a holiday. When she got out of the tram, she went to the delicatessen shop on the Naschmarkt, where the attendant asked her whether she happened to know Weissenbach on Lake Attersee - he had to make a delivery by mail and did not know the correct postal address." The famed psychologist Carl Jung himself seconded this idea. In his observation,"Jung claims that in 1805, the French writer Émile Deschamps was treated to some plum pudding by a stranger named Monsieur de Forgebeau. Ten years later, the writer encountered plum pudding on the menu of a Paris restaurant, and wanted to order some, but the waiter told him the last dish had already been served to another customer, who turned out to be de Forgebeau. Many years later, in 1832, Émile Deschamps was at a diner, and was once again offered plum pudding. He recalled the earlier incident and told his friends that only de Forgebeau was missing to make the setting complete — and in the same instant, the now senile de Forgebeau entered the room." Kammerer and Jung went on to observe even more instances of these real life events. In fact, Kammerer invented his own system describing the Law of Series and the importance of the 'coincidence' based on its number of immediate repetitions.Therefore, if coincidence does not exist in the sense that most people perceive it to be, then the lyrics to the song "Hokey Pokey" must not be a coincidence, and must in fact be metaphysically meaningful in some way. Such as, "you do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself around, that's what its all about".- Collective Unconscious Carl Jung also coined the theory of the collective consciousness, that all human beings are somehow unconsciously psychologically linked with one another. Considering the lyrics of the hokey pokey must then be linked with such a collective consciousness must mean that human beings somehow unconsciously know why the hokey pokey is the meaning of what its all about.In Carl Jung's words, "The collective unconscious - so far as we can say anything about it at all - appears to consist of mythological motifs or primordial images, for which reason the myths of all nations are its real exponents. In fact, the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious... We can therefore study the collective unconscious in two ways, either in mythology or in the analysis of the individual. (From The Structure of the Psyche, CW 8, par. 325.)."And, to further prove this theory, the U.S. National Library of Medicine states, "Recently described social network phenomena show that emotionally connected people come to share certain traits, including obesity, happiness, and loneliness. These do not appear to be mediated by face-to-face contact. Other examples of groups with a common connection that act in unison are mass hysteria, menstrual synchrony, and the ability of a group to guess the number of jelly beans in a jar. The animal kingdom abounds with examples of groups functioning as a single whole: fish school, birds flock, hoofed animals herd, ant and bee colonies work as a single organism. Try as they might, neuroscientists have been unable to find an anatomical seat of consciousness within the brain. C.G. Jung's realization of a collective unconscious began with an observation of a patient whose thoughts matched previous writings that the patient had never seen. The "emotional telepathy" of social network phenomena suggests a collective/communal consciousness as well."- The abstract meaning of the lyrics themselves include nihilist and absurdist influences.The song is rediculous and meaningless, and that is why it is a description of 'what its all about'. Life itself is rediculous and meaningless. Absurdist and nihilist, in a sense. Well, maybe not nihilist, per se, but could we ever know? The only way to refute the hokey pokey is to say that we can know precisely what this dance means, but alas, we may never know what it means to "put your left foot in and shake it all about". Our entire lives are defined as an absurd dance full of fun and laughter, only to end when we 'turn ourselves about' by passing away with our last breath. Did it mean anything? maybe not. But did we have fun? Yes. It's about being Albert Camus's hero, Sisyphus - doing something completely rediculous and possibly even meaningless repeatedly, but rebelling against the absurdity of it all by smiling and laughing at it.And that is why the hokey pokey is what its all about.http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov...http://www.scholarpedia.org...http://www.truthinsideofyou.org...