Pink Floyd the wall concert in Atlanta

Yesterday I attended the concert of Pink Floyd in Atlanta. The show was well organized and sold out. It left sad impression was sad but not because of the performance. The performance was outstanding.


The entire hall was full of people chanting “break the wall”. Many of them kept on going to get another glass of beer. What was sad? 30 years passed and Americans did not change and did not learn anything. The same people that were chanting anti-war slogans at this concert and singing alone, voted republican (this is Atlanta) had overwhelmingly voted for GW Bush… twice. In other words they voted for that war. Absurd! Or they are so detached from those slogans that they become simply abstract forms of speech?

Many of the audience were of geriatric age; some of them were in 30s and 40s. Some were along their teen children that they wanted to share the experience with. Older women and men dressed as they were 25 and they looked comical. Sure we all want to be young again, democrats again, right again but is it too late? So I can’t decide if those people were hypocritical or rational? Overall it reminded me of Dragoncon parade.