Pissing Razors - Keep to myself

These descriptions are very characteristic, since they show Wagner exclusively as an idealist theorist, but not as a practitioner of revolutionary affairs. And the point is not only that by the time of writing the memoirs, the emphasis in his worldview had already shifted. It’s just that Wagner turned out to be a spectator of the play, in the creation of which he, it seemed to him, took part, but in reality the actors played not the same roles and not in the way the dramatists planned. Reality did not correspond to Wagner's ideas. There were no knights in sparkling armor fighting under the holy banner of the struggle for freedom and justice. And there was blood, dirt and death. There was fear and disappointment. It is one thing to philosophize and write articles; quite another - in fact, risking your life in the name of ghostly ideals. Reading Wagner’s memoirs creates a lasting impression,that the Dresden uprising itself was a complete surprise for the composer. And even more unexpected was his outcome ...