Pink Floyd, cont.

Oddly enough, the lead story at anunews.net the day after our Roger Waters link is

http://www.theburningplatform.com/?p=28764
Hey You

........bringing recognition to the Floyd's fatefully apt political subthemes. Thhat link too features the group's bassist Roger Waters -- but doesn't mention his speech at the UN?! All the better if it means people are waking up to these currents and everything's coming together like the Beatles never chorded it.

Yeah, I remember the Hey You song from their 1979 album, The Wall. If you listen to any FM-style pop radio, and even if you don't, you've probably heard it to -- it sounds (like all their vocals) like a worn-out old duffer with iron-poor blood inveighing trendily (if logily) about the System in a stodgy tempo with accompaniment to match.

Hey, they sounded just like that when (in their twenties) they first hit the big time with their Dark Side of the Moon album, of which I was once an immense fan. Musical weltschmerz and burnout has always been the stock-in-trade of cosmically- or existentially- driven art, not least with English rockers. These Floyd albums are in fact laden with fateful commentary on the times and we must recognize it as an elephantine sort of cry against the soul-deadened empty-suit establishment which is so well-supported with public apathy -- or wild enthusiasm -- or the "quiet desperation" dolefully sung about on Dark Side (that paraphrasing Thoreau).

Since moving on from Dark Side their stuff hasn't meant a whole lot to me but am glad to see it getting recognition as protest music. Would like to think it has spent all these years provoking their fans to deep thought about our matrix, but fear it only inspires listeners to make Pink Floyd ever richer and smoke more dope. You know, and get more depressed.

Youtube has the complete Dark Side album in one video but it seems to start with a muttered expletive.

.........This just in from a reader:

Am just now catching up with your latest at ePC. And I see that Delaware's third largest source of revenue is seizing "unclaimed" private property. Whoa.

Here's another tidbit you may not know about the larcenous looters: some states seize the credit from store gift cards if they go unused for one year. So if Bob (stupidly) buys his brother Jack a $50 gift card from say Lowes for Christmas, and Jack loses it or forgets to use it in time, the state gets the money.

I don't care what anybody says, there is absolutely no way you could ever justify that logically, ethically, or morally.

Same with inheritance taxes, but everybody who's not a collectivist (you know -- all 27 of us) knows about that one already.

The default position is always that government cleans up, isn't it?

..........This from a fellow PN regular. Is Farrakhan crazy or merely "controversial," as truth haters would put it? Let us know if you find anything whatsoever to disagree with in it, please: Could you imagine any Beltway politician saying things in a speech? It's what we hire them to do -- sound the truth and fight for it where the battle is hottest, not run around the world forcing ameriKan "VALYOOZ" on it!

http://youtu.be/dzbVl_IYiWc
Louis Farrakhan On Ron Paul Exposing The Federal Reserve And International Bankers

Sometimes Farrakhan is indeed a hopeless nut. When he's good, he beats most other public figures in his honesty. I have no desire to promote anything Islamic or otherwise foreign to mainstream America, but truth is truth and ANYBODY who stands up for it so boldly as this gets my vote. Say, how 'bout this....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Farrakhan#Farrakhan_and_classical_music

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