Linedancing, which has taken Australia by storm in recent years, has also seriouslydivided the country music dance fraternity. I noticed in Adelaide recently, that some country music clubs are now physically segregating the bootscooters from the 'two steppers' at socials, with barbed announcements such as "All the linedancers on the Right...and all the people who are attractive enough to have someone to dance with, on the left." Described variously as 'folk dance for lemmings' and 'a great social outlet for people who always wanted to be in the army', bootscooting and Boot Camp do seem to have an awful lot in common. Rigid conformity, the chance to wear a uniform and the total elimination of individual expression mark the phenomenon. My feeling is that the rise, both in The United States andAustralia, of such regimented social behaviour, concurrent with the election of reactionary political regimes, is a phenomenon which merits Hugh Mackay's immediate attention. Personally, I was never all that big on marching at school either.