What's your source for this? Please send a link. I was already suspicious when I learned she graduated from Harvard. I like Pink Floyd, but you have to wonder what compromise they made with big business. Do they slander leftists, isolate them, and compare them to Syd Barret?

— RandomPoster33 (@RandomPoster33) November 14, 2022

Social media is already dominating my life to an insane degree, but I have a few more comments to make. First, a general criticism of Pink Floyd's music: blues. It's one thing for a poor, illiterate peasant to pick up the guitar and master the blues scale. Pink Floyd, however,1/2

— RandomPoster33 (@RandomPoster33) November 15, 2022

as representatives of British imperialism, brought to the table tons of money and the best composers, sound engineers, and equipment available to their age. They had a high level of education. Blues music, 1.5/2

— RandomPoster33 (@RandomPoster33) November 15, 2022

and then to the public at large, which had at its heart philosophical, artistic, and scientific ideas developed over thousands of years. This import carried with it political requirements, above all opposition to the revolution and more importantly the Fourth International. 3/4

— RandomPoster33 (@RandomPoster33) November 15, 2022

It then used its access to the radio to overpower the sound of the higher beauty with the lower beauty. If you listen to Syd Barret's contributions, you can see that he wanted to break from the simplistic formulation of blues, the easy on the intellect style imposed on 4/5

— RandomPoster33 (@RandomPoster33) November 15, 2022

industry artists. He believed in the movement of rock as transformative, meaning he sought new heights through more sophisticated inspiration. Finally, there is the content of Roger Waters himself, who tells us: talk about him but not to him, talk about him but never mention 5/6

— RandomPoster33 (@RandomPoster33) November 15, 2022

his name. This releases us of any legal obligation. This is not a very inspirational story, which explains why he would focus attention off himself and onto Barret. Industry leaders, however, bought in because, to them and to the bourgeoisie in general, there's nothing better 6/7

— RandomPoster33 (@RandomPoster33) November 15, 2022

than being released from the legal obligation to pay! If Roger Waters wants our attention, we want to see his membership application, his donation stubs, and an oath of loyalty to the revolutionary party. Anything less is an attempt, as he said himself, to set up a blockade 7/8

— RandomPoster33 (@RandomPoster33) November 15, 2022

right next to the tipping point, on the right-wing side of course, to block the working class from entry en masse into the Fourth International, in preparation for a workers' revolution and the establishment of workers' state, in the UK, in the US, and everywhere English 8/9

— RandomPoster33 (@RandomPoster33) November 15, 2022

or English-speaking culture holds sway. 9/9

— RandomPoster33 (@RandomPoster33) November 15, 2022