One of the worst albums of Pink Floyd is without any doubt "The Division Bell", their second album after Roger Waters left the band. I particularly disliked, already from the title the song "A Great Day for Freedom" (On the day the wall came down, they threw the locks onto the ground, and with glasses high we raised a cry for freedom had arrived...). I just couldn't stand this rhetoric of freedom being becoming part of the western capitalist block, and their old gray system being just wrong.
I don't think that the wall should have stayed, I would oppose any wall, like the wall between Mexico and the US, Israel and Palestine, and all the other walls separating people. I do not agree with the fact that, as perceived by most, the fall of the Wall was a victory of Capitalism over Communism. The biggest victory was to get rid of the threat of a nuclear war (if that existed anymore in the eighties). Does Coca-cola, consumism, and triple velvet toilette paper really mean that we live in a better world? Capitalism was a benefit for a big chunk of the population that used to live on the other side of the iron curtain, but not for all. The truth, is probably in the middle.
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