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David Bowie In 1969 my single "Space Oddity" was saying, "I'm opting out; I don't want any part of this; it's your problem; I'm going to create my own world." The isolationism I was feeling then is not part of youth culture today. I think the new community, as I call them, are very, very together. There's not this "we can try for the moon" feeling; young people know getting along with the guy next to you is accomplishment enough. I lived in Berlin off and on from 1976 to 1979. I remember going back to do a concert beside the Wall in 1987. There was an unseen audience on the other side that was quite as large. They were very vocal, disregarding the guards. You felt something was afoot, although one never dreamed it was going to be so dramatic.
I'm an incorrigible European. I think it's the future, and the rules are somewhere in the wreckage of what we have now. We've yet to discover them, especially morally and spiritually. I don't believe in a fin de siècle with everything crashing down. The challenge is to create a new set of values that are not élitist.
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