tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1614462784412380515.post8791781776671375428..comments2023-05-31T04:25:00.988-07:00Comments on Reading the City: A pitch-perfect piece of reportingMatt Schwarzfeld, Freelance writer.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13748409660575762608noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1614462784412380515.post-47764400996657231762008-09-28T00:23:00.000-07:002008-09-28T00:23:00.000-07:00Sad Nomad - first, thanks for reading. Second, I d...Sad Nomad - first, thanks for reading. Second, I don't believe Roger Waters is to blame, and I hope that's not what my post suggested. What I was trying to get at is the presumed posture of guilt: this soldier thought he was responsible for things he had no control over. Roger Waters has no control over the state of mind of his listeners: he's just being honest, and open, and expository (as is the responsibility of a good artist like himself). The important question is: to what degree do we bear the burdens of other people's faulty decisions, if we believe those decisions in some way were influenced by us. I do not believe Roger Waters had anything to do with anything... but I wonder how he bears this.dMatt Schwarzfeld, Freelance writer.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13748409660575762608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1614462784412380515.post-49870149153382975182008-09-27T23:02:00.000-07:002008-09-27T23:02:00.000-07:00So you come away from this article believing Roger...So you come away from this article believing Roger Waters is to blame because one of the 23 million copies of The Wall that sold was found in the car... There was also an Enya CD. Do you want Enya to account for herself? How about Jagermiester? Who made the bullets?<BR/><BR/>This poor guy was listening to Pink Floyd BEFORE he went to war. He killed himself after he came home from war. I think something more causative may have happened in between the two...<BR/><BR/>But there's no time like the present to test your theory, since -- as the article states -- more soldiers are killing themselves than at any recorded time. Check their tapes decks! They might be listening to Dark Side of the Moon (given the sales of that record, even more of them should be). You may have to expand the scope of your investigation to include the entire Pink Floyd back catalog:<BR/><BR/>"Corporal Clegg had a wooden leg<BR/>He won it in the war In nineteen forty four<BR/>Corporal Clegg umbrella in the rain<BR/>He's never been the same<BR/>No one is to blame"<BR/><BR/>Maybe someone is to blame, but I really don't think it's Roger Waters. I wonder how that guy smiling in the picture at the top of the article will cope the impact of HIS work? <BR/><BR/>I wonder how we all will. I would hate to see the day come when we start to blame Blue Oyster Cult...Sad Nomadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02987566408654592885noreply@blogger.com