The correct quotation is “tax avoiding”.
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Move the dash and suddenly he’s on The Masked Singer and we know his (completely appropriate) disguise!
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It’s going to be awhile. My dad missed being a boomer by being born 6 days too early (depends on when you separate out the generations). He’s still kicking around and would be the eldest of the boomer generation. So I think we have another decade of most of them at least.
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That is a very nice way of saying he’s believed his own press and put his head up his ass.
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It’s a fair cop, and I knew that too, because of his whole The RAF Took My Daddy From Me thing. My bad!
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“boomer” is currently being used as a sort of slur against seniors in general
older gen x is gonna get it next
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Yep that’s me - “Don’t “Boomer” me, ya little punk, I’m in the same boat as you - I’m Gen X!”
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“Next”? Some of us are getting it now.
We went from too young and feckless to too old and senescent without any intervening period of anyone caring what we think. Good thing Gen X are too cynical to believe in generation cohort stereotypes, or we might start to take it personally.
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It’s astrology, but instead of 13 signs a year there’s one every 20!
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Of course I don’t believe in astrology. I’m a Sagittarius!
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All in all, he’s just another prick in the mall.
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It looks to me like he’s taken up the crudely simplistic “My country does bad things, so anyone they oppose has to be in the right” view that a number of people have bought into. Which is mindbogglingly stupid, and leads to absurdities like this, where someone whose work is so anti war ends up supporting an act of aggressive war
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You and me both. Born on the leading edge of GenX, already looking like a retiree due to hair going grey. So much for the slacker in a hoodie look for me, now I look more like a (clean) homeless mechanic than like a software developer. I feel like that Steve Buscemi meme.
But since when did I let conventions get me down? FIDO.
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I actually did not see the protagonist Pink as redeemed, but destroyed, the torn down wall a symbol of a life now in ruins than the wall between him and the rest of the world finally falling. I always imagined it a symbol of him breaking down entirely, possibly even being crushed by the rubble of his ego, his protective wall collapsing on him.
In many ways, that album was also the beginning of the end, a sign of the split that happened when The Final Cut was labelled by Roger Waters, performed by Pink Floyd. I am glad that Gilmour and Mason brought back Richard Wright after he was done dirty.
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I kind of long for those days, pre social meida, when I didn’t know my favorite musician/actor/etc was a piece of crap.
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Back when you were comfortably numb?
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Yeah I had always seen it as the violent collapse of narcissistic defenses triggering his delusions of grandeur.
He runs out of women to blame for his problems, gets shot up with even more drugs, and emerges as a fascist with nothing but contempt for the fans who enable him.
Now of course my upbringing originally gave me a read that was entirely sympathetic to poor little pink, no surprise as that narrative closely fits the narcissistic addiction spiral my own father related to in the music.
As an aside, for 10 or so years before his death my dad used to leave “nobody home” on my voicemail all night over and over again until my inbox was full when he was angry-drunk and his ex or girlfriend couldn’t be reached… as a way to punish me for sleeping. All said, despite epic levels of dysfunction truly no one should have to endure, I loved my father a great deal though and… I loved The Wall once and admired Waters a lot for writing it.
Lotta complicated feelings around that album for me these days.
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Redemption was a poor choice of words, indeed. Once his wall came crashing down on him, he wasn’t redeemed so much as finally free, but that’s neither a good or bad thing. What would come next was on to him to decide. Would he learn from his past mistakes and make better life, or give up completely? That’s all left ambiguous.
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Noam Chomsky made a rather long career out of that. See also Oliver Stone and Sean Penn.
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