11-04-2012, 07:05 AM
Pinter's Nobel acceptance speech as with Grass' poem get stuck in the throats of the 'usual suspects' running the big powers and their proxies; as well as their propaganda apparati. In both cases [and I could site many others] it was artists speaking truth to Power, and Power trying to drown out that truth with their usual propaganda outlets and methods. I'll stand with Pinter and Grass on their respective artistic statements about the World situation. Scientists have at times also spoken truth to power...ie. Einstein and Oppenheimer [just two examples] - and been well spied on for it! The rarest of all LIVING species seems to be the politician that speaks truth to Power.
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass