This whole album and especially this song reminds me of a famous part in Henry David thoreau's civil disobedience. He talks about how after our first sin the The repetition causes the immoral act to become as it were UNmoral. Meaning it is no longer moral or immoral because we do the bad action we begin to do it without a conscience and we don't question its morality. I'm sure a smart guy like waters must've read Thoreau. I think this whole album is about how the human race is become desensitized to such atrocities like war, Waters breaks down the different groups: The fighters, the government (the people who are causing the fighting but aren't actually killing) and the normal people who have no part in the war except that their country is in it. Waters reminds me a lot of Thoreau and I recommend anyone who likes waters ideas to read Thoreau, because I'm sure that's from where his thoughts had been derived
This whole album and especially this song reminds me of a famous part in Henry David thoreau's civil disobedience. He talks about how after our first sin the The repetition causes the immoral act to become as it were UNmoral. Meaning it is no longer moral or immoral because we do the bad action we begin to do it without a conscience and we don't question its morality. I'm sure a smart guy like waters must've read Thoreau. I think this whole album is about how the human race is become desensitized to such atrocities like war, Waters breaks down the different groups: The fighters, the government (the people who are causing the fighting but aren't actually killing) and the normal people who have no part in the war except that their country is in it. Waters reminds me a lot of Thoreau and I recommend anyone who likes waters ideas to read Thoreau, because I'm sure that's from where his thoughts had been derived