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In reply to the discussion: "What shall we do now?" (re. the UCSB shootings) [View all]muriel_volestrangler
(101,154 posts)18. That's complete bollocks. He doesn't argue anything of the sort.
The clip you posted is about the break-up of the character ('Pink')'s marriage, and his turn to mindless success as a rock star, consumerism, and sex with groupies, as a result (it's followed by 'Young Lust', and, to make it clear it's about the marriage, the phone call home when he gets his wife's lover on the phone is moved before the clip you gave, rather than appearing at the end of 'Young Lust' as on the album:
'The Wall' does have sections about war, but that's about the loss of 'Pink'/Waters' father, and the general violence of authoritarian movements. Nothing whatsoever to do with 'gender relations'.
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You are trying to conflate war and the character's personal problems
muriel_volestrangler
May 2014
#34
If you taught rhetoric than I ask you to step back and look for a larger, overarching theme
KittyWampus
May 2014
#2
So the invention of bigger and better guns and war machines had nothing to do with it?
davidn3600
May 2014
#11
we have often talked about the backlash resulting from so much success of women over a small
seabeyond
May 2014
#15
We fight to amend the Second Amendment. The existence of guns prevents the very conversations
ancianita
May 2014
#45
that has nothing to do with love and desire. that has nothing to do with being fearful
seabeyond
May 2014
#56