I was astonished to find this on You Tube. The original animation from Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" album, the song "Welcome to the Machine" released in 1975:
They were way ahead of their time. Would have been interesting to see what they might have come up for a video of that song if they had been using today's technology.
The song itself has perhaps more validity today than it did back then. It's about the way humanity is sucked into the meaningless of a world that programs them simply to consume; that happiness in fact lies in the acquisition of things devoid of humanity and it's ideas. Success in life being measured by getting said acquisitions; that success being without the ongoing conversation of human ideals. The ideals embraced in fact being no more than what is preached by the capitalist world of consumerism. Such a life is without meaning and entirely lacking in human substance.
Of course those of us who have been near death, or who have a very realistic perception of our mortality, know that there is much more to life than this. It is in fact about human relationships, how we treat people, and love.
In some ways I wonder if those of us with HIV, or those who have experienced other life threatening things, are more apt to find fulfilment in life that way . Sometimes it's feels like being surrounded by brain dead drones living in today's society.
Got to get something out of this bloody disease I suppose.
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