Friday, December 09, 2005
Harold Pinter's Nobel Lecture:
"Art, Truth & Politics"
Category: Shoutrage/Action/Design
Subject: US & UK War Crimes/Democracy/Corporate Media (Propaganda)
Source: Nobelprize.org
"What surrounds us therefore is a vast tapestry of lies, upon which we feed."
~Harold Pinter, 2005 Nobel Laureate, Literature
Please gather family, friends, neighbors, and fellow citizens to watch, together, this extraordinary Nobel Prize acceptance speech.
What Mr. Pinter says in this 46-minute videotaped lecture should be shouted from rooftops worldwide (particularly within the US and UK, where the message is most urgent), considered in the privacy of our own minds, researched to our heart's content, and discussed everywhere we gather: in our homes, at our workplaces, in the marketplace, in public and private gardens, in places of worship and spirituality, in cafés, bars, pubs and restaurants, on the streets, in town meetings and city halls, in university classrooms and lecture halls, in schoolrooms, on the editorial and op-ed pages of our local and national newspapers, in the blogosphere and other internet meeting places, and on community radio and television programs, until such time as the complicit corporate media is forced to speak truth to the citizenry rather than boldfaced lies on behalf of an anti-democratic corporate-political elite.
Let us carry within us, and communicate to the world, words of truth such that no dark, dank place is left for our war-criminal, corporate politicians and their propagandists to hide. Let us, then, begin to usher in true democracy, in which—for the first time in history—the citizenry, we, are self-respecting and respected, critically educated, and empowered to mature as whole human beings, unshackled, finally, from the corrupting effects of political paternalism.
Due to his presently undergoing cancer treatment, Harold Pinter's Nobel Lecture was pre-recorded, and shown on video December 7, 2005, in Börssalen at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm.
His videotaped lecture is available for both high- and low- bandwidth internet connections. The lecture is also available in text format in the following languages: English, Swedish, French and German.
Click here to access the lecture in these various formats via the official Nobel Prize website.
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This post was originally published by Sean M. Madden on iNoodle.com.
Subject: US & UK War Crimes/Democracy/Corporate Media (Propaganda)
Source: Nobelprize.org
"What surrounds us therefore is a vast tapestry of lies, upon which we feed."
~Harold Pinter, 2005 Nobel Laureate, Literature
Please gather family, friends, neighbors, and fellow citizens to watch, together, this extraordinary Nobel Prize acceptance speech.
What Mr. Pinter says in this 46-minute videotaped lecture should be shouted from rooftops worldwide (particularly within the US and UK, where the message is most urgent), considered in the privacy of our own minds, researched to our heart's content, and discussed everywhere we gather: in our homes, at our workplaces, in the marketplace, in public and private gardens, in places of worship and spirituality, in cafés, bars, pubs and restaurants, on the streets, in town meetings and city halls, in university classrooms and lecture halls, in schoolrooms, on the editorial and op-ed pages of our local and national newspapers, in the blogosphere and other internet meeting places, and on community radio and television programs, until such time as the complicit corporate media is forced to speak truth to the citizenry rather than boldfaced lies on behalf of an anti-democratic corporate-political elite.
Let us carry within us, and communicate to the world, words of truth such that no dark, dank place is left for our war-criminal, corporate politicians and their propagandists to hide. Let us, then, begin to usher in true democracy, in which—for the first time in history—the citizenry, we, are self-respecting and respected, critically educated, and empowered to mature as whole human beings, unshackled, finally, from the corrupting effects of political paternalism.
Due to his presently undergoing cancer treatment, Harold Pinter's Nobel Lecture was pre-recorded, and shown on video December 7, 2005, in Börssalen at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm.
His videotaped lecture is available for both high- and low- bandwidth internet connections. The lecture is also available in text format in the following languages: English, Swedish, French and German.
Click here to access the lecture in these various formats via the official Nobel Prize website.
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This post was originally published by Sean M. Madden on iNoodle.com.
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Dear Postform Contributors & Readers,
Two things:
1) I recognize that I have a weak case for adding the "Design" category to this post. Those who have read some of my other writings may see that some of the things which I have herein referred to have been elaborated on elsewhere. Also, as I've recently communicated to Jacques, I hope to do more forward-thinking (postform) writing soon. I have been rather holed-up with trying to spread word of the Tony Lagouranis story.
In brief, however, I am calling for nothing short of a radical (at the roots) rethinking of our entire political "democratic" systems, as my thesis is that they are so thoroughly corrupt at this point as to be irreparable. This point I offer as a "Design" item for testing through dialogue.
2) My overuse of qualifiers (e.g., complicit corporate media), as above, is unfortunate from a writing point-of-view -- and for this I sincerely apologize -- but, because I am quite convinced that such qualifiers need to be attached whenever such substantives are referred to in order for a spade to begin to be called a spade within society at large, I am favoring utility over aesthetics and style in some of my writings.
Thank you for your understanding.
Sean
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Two things:
1) I recognize that I have a weak case for adding the "Design" category to this post. Those who have read some of my other writings may see that some of the things which I have herein referred to have been elaborated on elsewhere. Also, as I've recently communicated to Jacques, I hope to do more forward-thinking (postform) writing soon. I have been rather holed-up with trying to spread word of the Tony Lagouranis story.
In brief, however, I am calling for nothing short of a radical (at the roots) rethinking of our entire political "democratic" systems, as my thesis is that they are so thoroughly corrupt at this point as to be irreparable. This point I offer as a "Design" item for testing through dialogue.
2) My overuse of qualifiers (e.g., complicit corporate media), as above, is unfortunate from a writing point-of-view -- and for this I sincerely apologize -- but, because I am quite convinced that such qualifiers need to be attached whenever such substantives are referred to in order for a spade to begin to be called a spade within society at large, I am favoring utility over aesthetics and style in some of my writings.
Thank you for your understanding.
Sean
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