Pinter Lays It All Out: Indict Bush, Blair

Pinter Lays It All Out: Indict Bush, Blair: "Pinter’s theme was the abuse of language, and the abuse of power, by politicians, who, he said, “are interested not in truth but in power and in the maintenance of that power. To maintain that power it is essential that people remain in ignorance, that they live in ignorance of the truth, even the truth of their own lives. What surrounds us therefore is a vast tapestry of lies.”

At the end of his speech, he urged all of us to see through that tapestry.

He demanded an “unflinching, unswerving, fierce intellectual determination, as citizens to define the real truth of our lives and our societies.”

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