Nobel Prize Lecture given in 2005 by the eminent English playwright of genius Harold Pinter - Required reading or viewing today

Harold Pinter 1930-2008

With all the recent mendacious publicity concerning the imminent awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize, I would refer you to the Nobel Prize for Literature Lecture 'Art, Truth and Politics' delivered in 2005 by the eminent English playwright of genius, Harold Pinter. 

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2005 was awarded to Harold Pinter 

"... who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms."

Conclusions concerning the nature of truth in the lecture are inescapable as moral values oscillate in the wider world.

This link will transport you to the official Nobel website that contains a live delivery of the lecture and its written transcription. His voice is slightly affected as, although still working as a playwright, he was courageously fighting esophageal cancer from which he ultimately died. 

Although not referring directly to our dark days, in view of the current unspeakable events, it is a statement of universal relevant truth in our time. Only the actors have changed. 

The lecture is profoundly thought provoking, moving and required reading or listening, interred as it is, forgotten among the tsunami of superficial, gratuitous, pitiless and deceptive contemporary commentary

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2005/pinter/lecture/#content

Harold Pinter’s Nobel Lecture was pre-recorded, and shown on video on 7 December 2005, in Börssalen at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm