Jun 4, 2023
Art reaches the highest heights when it not only catches up with reality, but overtakes it. Right now this is happening in Germany, where they are trying everything to either ban the concerts of Roger Waters (one of the founders of Pink Floyd) or to put denunciation labels on Waters. First, they tried to label Waters an anti-Semite because he holds positions critical of Israel and supports the cause of the Palestinians. Waters won in court and was allowed to play all concerts. Now the Berlin police are investigating him for incitement of the people: in his stage show he is said to have glorified the Nazi regime. It could hardly be more abstruse: anyone who warns against hatred and totalitarianism gets the police on his back. The state can hardly show itself to be more totalitarian. Apparently, the Berlin police urgently need an update on artistic freedom and stage shows. With a little research, it would have been easy to find out that Pink Floyd released an album called "The Wall&