Comparing Pink Floyd And Thoreau

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Even modern ideas can relate to ideas from the past. Pink Floyd and Thoreau have many things in common even though they are hundreds of years apart think about it. They both agree with the ideas that the government is controlling and overtaking. In the Pink Floyd video it talks about how they don't need no education but the government is making them and Thoreau writes that the government is controlling.

Thoreau writes about how the government makes decisions based on the majority and they don't make conscious decisions. Thoreau writes “it is truly enough said, that a corporation has no conscience; but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience”(277).Thoreau is saying that if people would use their heads and make a conscious decision then the government would function correctly but instead they decide to base the decision on what the majority thinks it's a majority rule and whatever they decide sticks no changing it. Pink Floyd describes how the government is making kids go to school they have no say in the matter and the government …show more content…

it does not keep the country free. it does not settle the west. it does not educate”(276). In pink floyd's video they say “we don't need no thought control”. This is saying that Pink Floyd and Thoreau agree that the government is trying to control society and make them do things. The government is powerful and they try to control society and they have to obey the rules that they provide for people and if they don't they are punished for it even if such laws are unfair people have to go along with them people have to obey them or suffer the consequences. Thoreau also says that the government is like a machine. The machine will soon get old and rusty therefore it will have to be replace and thoreau thinks the government is the same way it will soon need to be replaced with something else an alternate

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