Thinking about Aladdin Sane

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Aladdin Sane (a pun on ‘A Lad Insane’).

David Bowie's iconic songs ‘Life on Mars?’ and ‘Space Oddity’ are playing on a loop in space. Elon Musk's SpaceX launched a Tesla Roadster into space with a dummy named ‘Starman’ in the driver's seat, and these Bowie classics are the soundtrack for this cosmic journey.

paving the way for our grasp of the inevitable future a lad insane or androgynous being true to oneself we are mere husks of emotional ineptitude like the celestial tides they ebb and flow only checked by other’s opinions: ‘Cowboys don’t cry’ an injustice to nature being in touch with your inner psyche is a sign of emotional security far more valuable than intellectual IQ which some sadly lack compensating for it in wild proclamations citing dubious ‘facts’ if empathy is a female trait then honour it in all beings as Starman is accompanied on his cosmic journey by strains of Space Oddity and Life on Mars? his conceptual songs that paved the way for us all …

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