The Ziggy Stardust feels like current day …
“The time is five years to go before the end of the earth. It has been announced that the world will end because of lack of natural resources. Ziggy is in a position where all the kids have access to things that they thought they wanted. The older people have lost all touch with reality and the kids are left on their own to plunder anything.”
Take from a David Bowie interview for Rolling Stone interview with William S. Burroughs.
