The Wall

Hammers are a major dichotomous symbol in "The Wall- Pink Floyd" possessing both creative or constructive and destructive powers, simultaneously beneficial and oppressive. Remenber my Sukarno Thought of Wishnu & Shiva, the same Nietszhie hammer that constructs has the power to tear it down. The hammers in the machines metaphorically create ideal members of society while destroying each child's individuality.

The dual nature ofthe hammers, what begins as a productive revolution (the individuality) turns into destructive violence as the children destroy their school and create a bonfire with the instruments of their past educational repression that serves as a funeral pyre for their teacher whom they drag out of the school kicking and screaming.

Almost every theme in "the Wall," Waters alludes to both the creative and destructive forces of any one idea. While overly-domineering figures are destructive to personal development, the absence of any authority figure is just as caustic. The dictatorial teacher represses each individual child but the lack of any education whatsoever is just as harmful. In this sense, living life is like walking a thin wire between two polar but equally destructive forces; to live, one must either skate over the thin ice carrying the personal burdens of the past or break through the ice and drown in self-destruction.

Whan the fascists are marching. The hammer flags are rising everywhere and Pink is shouting his orders.

Last But Not Least Good Night For All

Another Brick in The Wall
[Pink Floyd]

We don’t need no education.
We don’t need no thought control.
No dark sarcasm in the classroom.
Teacher, leave those kids alone.
Hey, teacher, leave those kids alone!
All in all it’s just another brick in the wall.
All in all you’re just another brick in the wall.

We don’t need no education.
We don’t need no thought control.
No dark sarcasm in the classroom.
Teachers, leave those kids alone.
Hey, teacher, leave those kids alone!
All in all you’re just another brick in the wall.
All in all you’re just another brick in the wall.