“Our second act opens on a huge synthetic, silver orb floating in a cavernous black space. The orb is immensely powerful, the tool of a new world order sworn to wreak havoc across the galaxy, hell-bent on destroying ancient preconceptions pertaining to class, race, economic group, and sexual orientation, mercilessly tearing down any and all social barriers in its path.
    This orb is a mirror ball.”

—Matt Mason, referring to the rise of disco in The Pirate’s Dilemma: How Youth Culture is Reinventing Capitalism, 2008.