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Review about Perfect Sense Part I & II ------Performed by Roger Waters | 07/19/2007 11:00:00 AM song predates gwb 2 out of 2 Found the view helpful this is from rolling stone,1992! the song is over 15 years old, folks! yes, iraq and mid east part of the equation, but our current situation has zippo to do with the original writings (though you can certainly say it's prophetic). in any case, with PS I&II, waters is more critical of our culture of TV news and the way we watch events unfold than he is of specific mideast tension. "It was three years before Operation Desert Storm that Waters, the British founder and former chief composer of Pink Floyd, began work on Amused To Death, his third solo album, by writing "Perfect Sense," a two-part song suite envisioning a world in which live television transmissions of war and upheaval become the principal form of mass entertainment. According to the album's thesis, since there is nothing in the history of civilization that generates more profit for the power elite than war, its creators see the enterprise as a can't-miss proposition. "The idea for the album," says Waters, "was a strangely prophetic one. I was working within the general metaphor of a gorilla watching television, the ape being a symbol for anyone who's been sitting with his mouth open in front of network and cable news for the last 10 years. The record explores the idea of television as medicine: It's either healing us or killing us. The truth is it's doing both, healing us as a target audience but killing off our respective cultures." Thanks to m font for submitting the review.