Pixelated Semantics

A schizotypical inventory

Political Hypnosis

Playwright Harold Pinter has made a dramatic Nobel Prize acceptance speech, courageously calling for the prosecution of Bush and Blair for war crimes, calling the Iraq invasion a 'blatant act of state terrorism', and clearly stating the effects of American interventionism:

'The United States supported and in many cases engendered every right-wing military dictatorship in the world after the end of the Second World War [...] I refer to Indonesia, Greece, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Haiti, Turkey, the Philippines, Guatemala, El Salvador, and, of course, Chile. The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them. You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force of universal good. It's a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis'.

He also makes an extremely vital point that demonstrates why the political use of Sedition laws against writers will fail: that in literature 'a thing is not necessarily either true or false. It can be both true and false'.

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