the recurring theme is one of a culturally and financially ascendant group, socially isolated by their own origin story, which repeatedly becomes scapegoated by hostile masses led by charismatic demagogues.
It would appear that Bowie’s brand of spiritualism was an older, pre-Christian pagan one because the pentagram is a sacred symbol not of witchcraft but of sacred geometry that neoplatonists
I went to get my usual croissant and cafe-au-lait today and was greeted by the pileus, or Phrygian red cap worn by freed slaves during the Roman Empire. It was in commemoration of Bastille Day, or the start of the French Revolution and the end of Feudalism in the modern era.