Wanna read my @flaminghydra.com essay about Harvard, fascism, and Pink Floyd's "The Wall" -- but without a PAYwall keeping you from it? You're in luck -- it's now free to read for everyone! I'd be honored if you shared it around!! - ThreadSky

josie.zone • 45 days ago

Wanna read my @flaminghydra.com essay about Harvard, fascism, and Pink Floyd's "The Wall" -- but without a PAYwall keeping you from it?

You're in luck -- it's now free to read for everyone!

I'd be honored if you shared it around!!

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nightmarebeach.com•45 days ago

this is fuckin amazing

josie.zone•45 days ago

Thank you!!!!

alfiegallagher.bsky.social•45 days ago

Glad you’ve come out the other end. I went through a really stressful time last year with things going wrong that just went round and round in my head. And… I somehow latched on to listening to 2-cd wall set in my car most days to and from work, for weeks on end.

alfiegallagher.bsky.social•45 days ago

Any other time in my life I’d call this self-involved teenage wank. But it was self-involved teenage wank that gave some kind of daily cathartic release in its bombastic shiny production and pure introspection. It was like defeating poison with poison, haven’t listened to it since

skinnerboxusa.bsky.social•42 days ago

Really enjoyed this, right through to the very end. I loved that album, first heard it in high school in 1983, but even then the fash stuff always bothered me.

The movie is terrible, but does have a couple of decent cuts not on the album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glLpXQDuuP4

5arah.com•45 days ago

Perfect, and will add to the discussions I have been having with the Ivy League graduates in my life.

lobefin.bsky.social•44 days ago

the impression i came away with was that this was a story of a young woman “slumming it” (via music) in order to affirm her status as an elite

rather at odds with what i think was the intended message, and the impression i have of you as a person

luanneplatter.bsky.social•44 days ago

@luckykleinschmidt.bsky.social

heatherjochens.bsky.social•44 days ago

I went back and read it a second time— it’s strange how institutions like Harvard are made to break people and either inspire them to become the worst person in the world or to cease existing. That loneliness, though, I knew it all too well…

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