On the music video Another brick in the wall what does it mean when you watch the kids getting shredded up?

Question

When the kids fall into that thing and shredded stuff comes out , what does that mean?

Answer 1

If you get the DVD of the movie 'The Wall', and listen to the commentary, Roger Waters and Gerald Scarfe (artist who worked with the band to form images for The Wall) talk about this part. It basically refers to how the educational system takes in free thinking indviduals and then grinds them with 'their' way of thinking... This is done (according to the ablum and movie) through means of insulting the children for having open minds- and this can be seen in two of the songs dealing with this scene-
-The Happiest Days of our Lives -
When we grew up and went to school
There were certain teachers who would
Hurt the children in any way they could ...
...By pouring their derision
Upon anything we did
And exposing every weakness
However carefully hidden by the kids

And in the Another Brick in the Wall Part 2:
We don't need no education
We dont need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!

Now, to ansewer your question- the meat grinder is what happens to us in the educational system. With the childs open mind gone, and conforming to others beliefs than their own- it is simialr to being processed through a meat grinder- cause there is a whole bunch of kids in school and when they come out they are the one same screwed up product.
The meat grinder could also be used as an example of eduction and industry- in the movie you see kids running through mazes, then they are shipped down a conver belt and are formed into products before being dumped into the meat grinder.

Hope this helps somewhat.

Answer 2

The song is an anti-establishment tune. The 'brick in the wall' metaphor implies that education just puts us in the 'wall' of society, rather than living our own lives. It also has a double meaning, since in the whole opera, the protagonist builds a 'wall' around himself to block off the outside world. Though there is a lot of discussion on the meaning of the ideas and symbols in it. May I recommend the movie (Directed by Roger Waters)? You may find it interesting, and answer a few questions visually. Peace, S.

Answer 3

Pink Floyd Meat Grinder

Answer 4

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i think its satire for our modern day society... a brick adding to the wall saying how we are take these young kids and from a young age we teach them to be "normal" how all of the education is brainwashing to be normal creating a Better world. They just basically said to knock it off. You control the youth you can control the future.

Answer 5

Argh! I hate that part! I was little when I first saw that and it gave me nightmares...imagine going to school and then getting minced in a mincer....yuck...The whole movie is about WW2, hence those hammer-type things marching like Hitler and their version of the "swastika"....as well as everything else in the film clip. I'm not so sure about the mincing part though, lol

Answer 6

It's supposed to be a meat grinder, the stuff at the bottom is like kiddie-hamburger-meat. It represents schools smashing the individuality out of everyone and molding them into society.

Answer 7

That indicates school is the process, the mechanism if you will, of taking individual children and making them submit to someone else's vision of their lives, instead of the child's individual own free will.

Thank GOD the US education system is so crappy.

Answer 8

Basically, the meaning of this scene is to put an example as we, kids are put down in school, mushed into one socety.

Answer 9

When kids go to school they become non-independent thinking, homogenized, "dead" people. School forces them to become a part of the whole ruthless socety.

Answer 10

good answer arveleg (first answer). Hit nail on the head