Maybe Roger Waters doesn't but he has millions of dollars (pounds) to cover for his inadequacies. Maybe it's ironic that this "high-school dropout turned rock-star", while deriding education, still wants to educate his naive following to his own agenda. Maybe it's just hypocrisy.
But it's not his fault! Nobody forces people to buy Pink Floyd's albums and subscribe to the school of thought that promotes blaming others for your problems. "The Wall" is the epitome of that school. "The Wall" the album, a collection of boring burlesque and pop numbers, is all about blaming others. Blame your parents, blame the school, blame your peers, blame the drugs, blame the government. Waters tries to steer you clear of all the responsibility.
"The Wall" the movie is also about blaming others, but it is about bad acting, bad cinematography and bad direction as well. It's mostly about cheap symbolism (regarding totalitarianism), plainly obvious to anybody that has read a book or two (that is, educated himself). But not to other high-school dropouts and wannabe intellectuals who make the majority of Pink Floyd audience today. They still smugly congratulate themselves for "cracking" into Roger Waters's "code", that "code" being no more enigmatic than an average crossword puzzle. But you do need an education to see that.
Roger Waters has "high school" written all over his "thinking". On the average, brilliant musicians don't equal brilliant thinkers. But the music being so seductive leads many to "feel" otherwise. This is the case here.
Since "blame" is the name of the game here - I'm going to blame Roger Waters for making a lot of people stupid. Perhaps it's unfair, though. He couldn't make people stupid if there wasn't a material for that already.
I have a news for you Wall-worshipers. "Freeing your mind" isn't abandoning government's propaganda and taking up Roger Waters' propaganda as an utmost truth. Freeing your mind is being able to decide for yourself that what you read/watch/listen to, is a piece of crap. No matter the messages, no matter the good intentions on part of the author. You are not obliged to heed. Doesn't even matter whether that piece is "The Wall" or this article. The decision is yours.
But it's not his fault! Nobody forces people to buy Pink Floyd's albums and subscribe to the school of thought that promotes blaming others for your problems. "The Wall" is the epitome of that school. "The Wall" the album, a collection of boring burlesque and pop numbers, is all about blaming others. Blame your parents, blame the school, blame your peers, blame the drugs, blame the government. Waters tries to steer you clear of all the responsibility.
"The Wall" the movie is also about blaming others, but it is about bad acting, bad cinematography and bad direction as well. It's mostly about cheap symbolism (regarding totalitarianism), plainly obvious to anybody that has read a book or two (that is, educated himself). But not to other high-school dropouts and wannabe intellectuals who make the majority of Pink Floyd audience today. They still smugly congratulate themselves for "cracking" into Roger Waters's "code", that "code" being no more enigmatic than an average crossword puzzle. But you do need an education to see that.
Roger Waters has "high school" written all over his "thinking". On the average, brilliant musicians don't equal brilliant thinkers. But the music being so seductive leads many to "feel" otherwise. This is the case here.
Since "blame" is the name of the game here - I'm going to blame Roger Waters for making a lot of people stupid. Perhaps it's unfair, though. He couldn't make people stupid if there wasn't a material for that already.
I have a news for you Wall-worshipers. "Freeing your mind" isn't abandoning government's propaganda and taking up Roger Waters' propaganda as an utmost truth. Freeing your mind is being able to decide for yourself that what you read/watch/listen to, is a piece of crap. No matter the messages, no matter the good intentions on part of the author. You are not obliged to heed. Doesn't even matter whether that piece is "The Wall" or this article. The decision is yours.