Explain what "another brick in the wall" means

the wall symbolizes pink's self-isolation from the rest of society. his hatred of school was 'another brick in the wall' that he used to construct the invisible barrier that separates him from everyone else.

And not just any wall, but the protagonist's personal isolative wall from society.

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"The Wall" is a metaphor for isolating oneself from society.
This wall was gradually built over the protagonist's life, every instance of trauma and abuse was "another brick" added to the wall that separates him from others.
"The Another Brick in the Wall Pt 2" song was about abuse from teachers/education system, it's just saying that all he got from that experience was another brick to build his wall to hide.
I think Part 1 and 3 were about his dad dying I can't remember.
The whole album goes through all his personal issues that makes him want to retreat; dad's death, mum's overbearing nature, teachers harassing him, marriage falling apart, drug use, etc.
If it has any socio-political commentary then it's very broad and more on the socio- aspect than the -political aspect. Nothing to do with communism.

Animals, maybe, had some stuff about communism on there, since it was loosely inspired by animal farm. The Wall, and especially 'another brick', is about conformity and the pressures of society. Granted, there's also the bit about how pop/arena rock icons are basically the same as fascist dictators in their commanding of large groups of people who can't think for themselves, but that's not communism

>commanding of large groups of people who can't think for themselves
>that's not communism
the 20th century begs to differ

It’s about that we don’t need no education.

i mean, the example in the album is literally fascism

AMLOR>>

that's not really exclusive to communism though

No, it was -literally- a drugged up rock star ranting about riff-raff in the room, but yes the allusion was a fascist rally, simply because his targets were merely 'undesirable' identity groups rather than people that owned things.
If it were "Are there any farmers in the theater tonight? Get em up against the wall! This one owns land, and that one grows food, who let all this oppression into the room?" then it would be a communist allusion

Looks like you need an education

It's about the mass damnation of humanity, extra ecclesium nulla salus

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I didn't say it was, I'm just arguing against the idea that Communism doesn't prey on retard that don't think.

sure, but also there's 'waiting for the worms' and the whole marching through the streets + goosestepping hammers imagery (which was literally copped by a group of neonazis who didn't seem to get that they were being insulted i guess), plus when you see the wall live, the hammers are draped down the wall on giant red banners a-la swastikas. it's quite clearly meant to represent the fact that most pop stars unintentionally brush up against the same cult-of-personality shit that hitler had going for him.

well then i worded the initial post wrong, i meant that it's not JUST communism, obviously in history it did prey on it. that being said, communism as a concept is not really about that, most historical examples of 'communism' (i.e., ussr, and china) stopped being communist fairly quickly in their regimes and turned into more-or-less capitalist dictatorships with a gigantic gap between the lower and upper classs instead. you can't have a person like stalin or even a class of elites like those places did and still be considered a 'communist' society

Fuck Waters gay Jew hater.

We live in a society

he doesn't hate jews, he just hates netanyahu, who most jews/israelis i know hate as well

the only way it was ever "about" communism is when he did that thing in Berlin in 1990.
Other than that it's really about himself - even the (real) skinheads in the movie aren't the point -
they're a symptom of alienation and a symbol for aggression, disdain, and lust for power.

Elvis Costello did a similar thing in his own "concept album", Armed Forces,
which came out almost a year before "The Wall".

Yes I understand all that, my only gripe with the original comment was the implication that communism doesn't breed a cult of personality that preys over groups of people that don't think for themselves.

again, that wasn't my implication. the whole sentence started with the bit about 'fascist dictators.' the 'that's not communism' was referring to the fact that fascism =/= communism

You're all just repeating what I already said Also, Animals is a critique of Capitalism, turning the idea of Animal Farm's critique of Communism on its head.

that's why i said animals 'had some stuff about' communism, not that it was critiquing it.

Get off 4channel Waters.

>Animals is a critique of Capitalism, turning the idea of Animal Farm's critique of Communism on its head
Basically the "no u" of art.

i think he's a dick for other reasons, but being sympathetic to palestine doesn't automatically mean you hate jews

Exactly, Roger Waters is the king of lazy critiques
>Ha ha charade you are
It really doesn't even have anything about communism, at least not explicitly, it is completely about the failures of capitalist hierarchy while not even holding up communism as an alternative.

Don’t defend yourself

This guy is right.
Am Israeli, I do agree with Waters. No complaints.
but WTF does he have against foxes?
Evil, evil bastard.

Foxes have been genociding us rabbits for thousands of years. Remember the 6 billion

>we don't need no fart control
can someone explain this line to me?

nice try, Harvey.
"Watership Down" redpilled me on you guys.

British teachers used to force students to hold in their farts all day.
Not anymore, it's a much more liberal and smelly country now.

>If you don’t eat your meat, you can’t have any pudding
This was directed towards Syd right?

It's just about the narrator walling himself off from the world because of various things in his life. He doesn't like school and such but the titular wall is inside him