Prompt: "A song that mentions someone's astrological sign, either in the title or the lyrics"
Selected by Sunny
"Medley: Aquarius / Let the Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures)"
The 5th Dimension
The Age of Aquarius, 1969
Characteristics of a typical Aquarius (January 20 - February 18) Sun Sign:
- egalitarian, progressive, innovative
- cold, detached, stubborn, and heavy-handed
- the final 'air' sign (?)
- ruled by Uranus (???)
I ripped most of the above from Allure magazine. Actually it's unclear, now, in a society that views astrology as woo-woo, who the authority on things are. Or is there any authority because it's all woo-woo made-up bullshit? I really don't know. Reading that Allure article, stuff jived, but uh, maybe like cold reading, it could just be selection bias and wanting some larger system to be "right."
I suppose the hinge-point of all of this is how much you believe in Fate. One might say that when your die is cast at birth, simultaneously the stars cast a specific pattern, and if one's extremely perceptive, you could make the causal connections between the first to the second.
Have you ever read Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson? As far as sci-fi goes, he's kind of stodgy, but has interesting ideas. There was this quote that I still remember from years ago that comes into my head during any sort of astrology related reading. Economics -is- like astrology. A lot of men get very upset when you say this around them. It's the sort of point I would never bring up at my corporate job. I'm not saying their anger proves the point to be correct, but,
The first time I heard this song was at the end of The 40-Year-Old Virgin, and because it was the first time I heard the song, I felt like I missed out on the joke. Memorable all the same.
No comments:
Post a Comment