On Pink Floyd's "The Wall"

Mandatory remark: "The Wall" is great, you can jerk off to it.

A few days back I was listening to "The Wall" while commuting to work and witnessed again how amazingly solid it is. This note is my immediate reflection on the album I haven't listened to for a long time. The Wall reminds me of my youth. Back then I appreciated only music, not focusing much on the concept. The Wall feels like real art, something that comes from within the depths of the soul unfiltered, not crippled with internal censorship or commercial limitations. It sounds like an echo of a Beatnik revolution, but more reflective, a beautiful tide wave, instead of a roaring tsunami of the 60s. The same applies to the lyrics. One of my friends liked it as much as I did. That friend of mine told me once that in his opinion, it's about the woman devouring the man, but we've been too young and too drunk to notice more. Now, listening to it, I see that "The Wall" presents a multitude of social problems of existential kind, the ones that can be traced a few centuries back.
And the "amazing completeness" of it, that I mentioned earlier comes from the balance of opposites. The opposites presented there are not as evidently depicted as the main themes, but you can observe them as shadows and half-tones. Pink Floyd has mastered that opposing dualities and dark voids between them. I felt that first very clearly in "Another Brick in the Wall", on the visible side, there is a protest of the young generation that refuses to live in a strictly controlled society bound by classroom rules taught by teachers. But when you listen to the chorus of children reciting "We don't need no education", you also feel that dumb destructive refusal that will blindly devastate anything on its pathway.
In "Mother", the obvious part is a vast and controlling mother's love that creates men who are unable to make life decisions. On the other side, I see a weak man clinging to that force out of fear of the world around him and dulling himself with drugs to stop observing his self-pity, so it's not obvious anymore who created and shaped who in this relationship.
There are so many things to consider while listening to this album:
Fading love and rage caused by an inability to find anything valuable in life in "One of My Turns", a similar issue raised in "Nobody Home", only quiet. Men grovel for returning to relationships where they seek something women can't provide. Narratives of rage, loneliness, despair; each topic presented with a hidden contrary. If you look into every song, you may notice the opposites, and how they blend into each other with shadows cast by them. I think Pink Floyd knew it well too because one of the other albums is called "The Dark Side of The Moon". The moon carries perfect symbolism as an object with both dark and light sides while being constantly mutable with shadows passing over it.
The range of social dilemmas presented in "The Wall" is not solely related to building or breaking the wall, as I thought before. Now I think, that social issues constitute the title because all those problems are felt like a wall. Personally, for me, the album also sounds sweet because it has some degree of opera in it, very lively presented in "Vera" and "The Trial".

These were my subjective thoughts on "The Wall". Later I read a nice biographic Wikipedia article that explained the history and concept of the wall. However, I am strongly in favor of making my own observations before reading the official version, it leaves more space to think on questions like: why so much unobvious duality in Pink Floyd's music? Is that a reflection of the Western Christian culture with its inherent binary choice between heaven and hell? Does Pink Floyd focus intentionally on shades between opposite poles as a natural habitat for misfits? Do these shades symbolically represent Purgatory, a place of loneliness and suffering? I guess I'm not overthinking it, the album is a complex piece of art, otherwise, it would not have left such a long influential trail in the history of contemporary music.

I am not a native English speaker, feel free to correct me.