Redux - The Gunner's Dream

Pink Floyd's "The Final Cut" was similar to "Forty Years" in that it was a look back at how the goals of World War II had worked out. Which means it's been on my mind in a similar way, so I felt like redoing it as well.  But the bit about  "...you can speak out loud about your doubts and fears And what's more No-one ever disappears  You never hear their standard issue Kicking in your door" That seemed to me, always, an exaggeration of what happened in the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany.....until Minneapolis, until Portland and, yes, until Los Angeles.  But now, it's too real. It's just what The Gunner,  - "in a corner of some foreign field," one that is forever England - just what he would have been fighting against. What he was fighting against.  If you can't find it on your streaming service, then in addition to the conceptual video linked below, you can also hear a simple acoustic version by Roger Waters on Youtube.  It's from about the same time as this episode.  https://youtu.be/aC9rY4HeN6A?si=nUo_mcl-bh2BcYTn My Countdown series was pretty well done, I think, so if you like it you can listen to more of them...around...if you look for it.  =============================================================== What is your dream for what the world looks like, after all this?     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Final_Cut_(album) "A place to stay, enough to eat, somewhere old heroes shuffle safely down the street Where you can speak out loud about your doubts and fears And what's more   No-one ever disappears  You never hear their standard issue Kicking in your door You can relax On both sides of the tracks And maniacs  don't blow holes In bandsman by remote control And everyone has recourse to the law And no-one kills the children anymore."   Turns out a video was made for it, but let me recommend listening to the song on its own, if not the album, at least the first time or two. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSE7qdjy3Q0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States