Pink Floyd, through their drug haze, was using satire and irony. The same way The Clash lampooned neo-Nazis in their song The Clampdown or The Jam exposed skinheads in That's Entertainment.
If there were electronic pipelines into everybody's minds, nary would a single soul be free of the sort of things that would turn away or turn off virtually all of us.
I inherited about 150 classical albums. I picked out everything by Wagner and tossed them out. Don’t care what the music is like, he was a vile person and helped set the tone (no pun intended) for the Nuremberg Laws that inter alia prohibited Jews from working as musicians and even banning the performance of works written by Jews (including Mahler). I de-Nazified my music collection. I encourage thinking people to do the same.
As another user said, listening to Wagner for the music is like reading Mein Kampf for the quality of the prose. Both were intended to justify hate and discrimination.
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