/View.data/ Remark by Tsvetan Kolev on View.data
August 30, 2013 Roger Waters in Sofia! “The Wall” dwell! Probably the most spectacular live performance efficiency I’ve skilled to date…
I will not speak about how my father used to open my “ears” to Pink Floyd (for which I thank him), whereas my mom (who additionally has “coronary heart and soul” for this music) always turned down the “too loud” sound on the stereo- the association. 🙂 Good recollections!
I’m eager about one thing else in the meanwhile, and this live performance woke up different ideas in me. As a result of, like all true rock music, it is music with a message, music that evokes not simply emotion however thought, music that is designed not simply to entertain however to awaken, to ask uncomfortable questions and to impress, music of rise up, music of protest.
I am speaking in regards to the protest…
“Mom, ought to I belief the federal government?” sings Roger Waters on stage, whereas the reply is projected on the wall to the facet – “No fuckin’ approach – RESIGN!”
Sure, a very nice bow to the Bulgarian public. Nevertheless, it will be good to do not forget that Roger Waters didn’t come to Bulgaria to say “resignation” to the Oresharski cupboard, and “The Wall” is a spectacle stuffed with a lot deeper, multi-layered and international messages. It might be good (for ourselves) to cease pondering in media-manipulated flat stereotypes and get our heads out of the sand.
If we do it, we’ll absolutely perceive that Roger Waters stated clearly, not solely to the Bulgarian public, but in addition to the entire world – “Each gun that’s made, each warship launched, each rocket fired, signifies, within the last sense, a theft from those that starvation and are usually not fed, those that are chilly and never clothed.” (Each gun manufactured, each conflict began, each rocket launched means, in the end, stealing from those that are ravenous and underfed, from those that are chilly and underclothed.)
If we do, we’ll do not forget that on the wall, along with “Resignation”, Capitalism was written in Coca Cola font, that on the large BLACK PIG flying over the stadium (which was “killed” by the viewers on the finish of the live performance) have been depicting the logos of Shell, McDonald’s, Mercedes, the hammer and sickle, and likewise the symbols of the world’s main religions…
And if we “have eyes to see and ears to listen to” (that’s, if now we have not voluntarily assumed the everyday ostrich pose), we can’t fail to grasp the clear message that “The Wall” sends on this approach. And this message (within the phrases of Waters himself) is just not anti-religious, anti-Semitic (by the best way, such accusations have been made in opposition to the creator) or “anti”-whatever-it was, however “PRO-life” (FOR-life)!
Does it matter whether or not the bombs that take life fall within the type of a Star of David, a Crescent and Star, a Christian cross, the Shell brand (a reference to bloody oil), a hammer and sickle, or a fascist image (the crossed hammers from “The Wall”)? Does it matter what the ideological guise is of those that make choices on our behalf, push the button and launch the missiles that carry demise? Are the lives of kids in Serbia and Syria much less invaluable than the lives of kids in America and Israel?
I’m writing all this as a result of, within the gentle of present occasions in Syria, the vices (within the sense of flaws) hidden in our pondering floor – the identical vices due to which we willingly allowed ourselves to be manipulated and lied to by Bulgarian politicians for greater than 20 years.
The voices of politicians and public figures are heard preaching the conflict within the identify of “democratic values” and “pro-Western orientation”. Figures seem on the stage who, in a mentoring tone, clarify to us how Bulgaria must be actively concerned in a potential army marketing campaign in opposition to the Assad regime in Syria, conveniently omitting the truth that a army intervention means tens of 1000’s of recent victims, destruction and, probably, extra a extra critical destabilization of the area, which in flip would have unpredictable penalties even on a world scale.
Those that declare that true democracy could be imposed with bombs and missiles haven’t understood the message of Roger Waters and The Wall. The truth is, the unsustainability of the above thesis has been confirmed in follow plenty of occasions, and it’s clear to any unbiased observer that with the facility of bombs you may impose a colonial coverage, rob and destroy, however not create and construct one thing good for the folks.
The belief you could understand the values you battle for by capturing your opponent (with a schmeiser – as in “The Wall”) is deeply fascist in its essence. And I am unable to assist however quote Dimitar Bojanov, who nowadays warned us by way of his publication on the Web (“The Revival of Fascism”):
“Oh, sure, he is coming again! He is coming again with harmful velocity, and already I can see the civilians caught in his spell—they’re amongst us and able to stretch out their hand mightily and shout ‘Hail!’ So long as Obama or the European Union tells them to, they’re finished.”
The place is the connection right here with the protests in opposition to the Oresharski cupboard? Effectively, the factor is that I actually actively take part in these protests, and I do not just like the thought that the individuals who took to the streets to specific their intolerance in the direction of the best way politics are finished in our nation will find yourself being lied to once more ( and largely self-deluded). As a result of the so-called “opposition forces”, reformist blocs and new political initiatives, claiming to be additionally a part of the protest in opposition to the federal government, in current days are competing to specific better empathy with the “western world” and to be the primary to supply the complete WE assist for strikes in opposition to Syria (discover earlier than UN inspectors report on chemical weapons used there). These are the identical politicians who within the subsequent election will untie the bag of lies and once more be infinitely beneficiant of their guarantees, combating for OUR voices. And for what? To exchange “these” with “these”, to overthrow the “communists”, to usher in the “democrats”, to interchange one oligarch with one other oligarch, to show our again on the “East” and embrace the “West” … Aren’t we already uninterested in taking part as soon as once more on this play written by “imported” and native administrators?
It must be crystal clear that there will probably be no actual change within the state of affairs in Bulgaria till we modify our pondering patterns and apply our inventive potential to make our nation what we wish it to be. “Be the change you wish to see on the planet,” stated Mahatma Gandhi. Right now’s dynamic world presents us with new challenges day by day, and our pondering on the international and native ranges is caught in musty patterns, as if plucked from the archives of the Chilly Struggle. Following this path, we could solely get “substitute” however not “change”. Personally, I don’t want to take part in “changed” protests, and due to this fact each time I am going out to specific my place on the road, I’ll keep in mind this.
It is extremely pathetic and sad-funny the makes an attempt of some media to recommend that, you see, Roger Waters “cut up” protesters and counter-protesters with the inscription “Resignation” on the wall. If there’s any cut up and division, we could search for it at the start in ourselves and within the partitions we enable to exist in our minds and hearts. As a result of in the end, the one who understands the message of “The Wall” is aware of that it’s a message of peace, unity and tearing down the unreal partitions between us; a message that’s as universally human as it’s political, insofar as, for higher or for worse, politics issues our collective and particular person being.
Final evening, the creators of this distinctive spectacle made Sofia empathize with the spirit of invaluable rock music, which overcomes the mud of time with its messages, which unites slightly than divides folks, which provokes us to at all times ask questions, suppose, really feel and battle , to tear down the WALL.
Thanks, Roger Waters!
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