05-04-2015, 06:26 AM
Brownlie,
Waters is Roger Waters of Pink Floyd and "The Wall" refers to "Pink Floyd – The Wall" a "1982 British live-action/animated musical film". Pink Floyd "The Wall" It was written by Roger Walters and possibly being semi-autobiographical. It was similar in scope if not in content to the Who's "Tommy".
Ringer had not long before published his best selling book "Looking Out for #1". By the mid 70's the Baby Boomers had put aside the traditional values based on self sacrifice and moved towards what they called self-fulfillment, which was just a fancy way of saying self-absorbed and self-centered. I was using the Waters of the film (character name "Pink") as the character representing the first wave of this kind of thinking. However, there was still some non-self based morality in these people. Thus we had to wait a while until the second wave (with no redeeming characteristics) came along, the representative of such was Madonna: a manipulative, insincere, hedonist. The perfect leader for the second coming of the "me generation". Hopefully that will clear up some of the references.
Maybe others will weigh-in on how obscure they think these references are. Before now, I never really considered them to be so, but maybe it is something I should consider.
Thanks for you comments,
Dale
Waters is Roger Waters of Pink Floyd and "The Wall" refers to "Pink Floyd – The Wall" a "1982 British live-action/animated musical film". Pink Floyd "The Wall" It was written by Roger Walters and possibly being semi-autobiographical. It was similar in scope if not in content to the Who's "Tommy".
Ringer had not long before published his best selling book "Looking Out for #1". By the mid 70's the Baby Boomers had put aside the traditional values based on self sacrifice and moved towards what they called self-fulfillment, which was just a fancy way of saying self-absorbed and self-centered. I was using the Waters of the film (character name "Pink") as the character representing the first wave of this kind of thinking. However, there was still some non-self based morality in these people. Thus we had to wait a while until the second wave (with no redeeming characteristics) came along, the representative of such was Madonna: a manipulative, insincere, hedonist. The perfect leader for the second coming of the "me generation". Hopefully that will clear up some of the references.
Maybe others will weigh-in on how obscure they think these references are. Before now, I never really considered them to be so, but maybe it is something I should consider.
Thanks for you comments,
Dale
How long after picking up the brush, the first masterpiece?
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.