This connects to my last one. There's this quote from Bowie at this period (Scary Monsters) where he said he went travelling around the world and felt much more connected to things for it. In a sense, he sees the broad nature of the world in that certain opportunities are only available in certain ways and places. I think it's his way of deferring guilt for being so educated and rich which sprang from him being able to survive past third world childhood diseases and the providence of his good genes to be so intelligent/talented...in some sense of which he had "nothing to do with it". Wasn't he who chose to be the specimen he was born as which allowed him to become so successful a human...
This connects to my last one. There's this quote from Bowie at this period (Scary Monsters) where he said he went travelling around the world and felt much more connected to things for it. In a sense, he sees the broad nature of the world in that certain opportunities are only available in certain ways and places. I think it's his way of deferring guilt for being so educated and rich which sprang from him being able to survive past third world childhood diseases and the providence of his good genes to be so intelligent/talented...in some sense of which he had "nothing to do with it". Wasn't he who chose to be the specimen he was born as which allowed him to become so successful a human...