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Mood Music – No Control

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In 1999, summing up his work since and including Outside, Bowie said “Perhaps the one through-line between some of the stuff in Outside and the coming millennium is this new Pagan worship, this whole search for a new spiritual life that’s going on. Because of the way we’ve demolished the idea of God with that triumvirate at the beginning of the century, Nietzsche, Einstein, and Freud. They really demolished everything we believed. ‘Time bends, God is dead, the inner-self is made of many personalities’… wow, where the f*** are we? […] I wonder if we have realized that the only thing we could create as ‘God’ was the hydrogen bomb and that the fall-out from the realization that as gods we can only seem to produce disaster is people trying to find some spiritual bonding and universality with a real nurtured inner-life. But there is also this positivism that you find now which really wasn’t there at the end of the last century. Then, the general catch phrase among the artistic and literary community was that it was the end of the world. They really felt that in 1899 there was nothing else, that only complete disaster could follow. It isn’t like that now. We may be a little wary or jittery about what’s around the corner, but there’s no feeling of everything’s going to end in the year 2000. Instead, there’s almost a celebratory feeling of ‘right, at least we can get cracking and really pull it all together.'” Although he ruefully noted, “I think it’ll all fizzle out on January the 1st. Getting up and deciding what you’re going to have for breakfast, that’ll be the most exciting thing to do in the New Age.” wikipedia – outside

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