{"id":49263,"date":"2019-10-30T05:15:05","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T10:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49263"},"modified":"2019-10-30T05:15:07","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T10:15:07","slug":"roger-waters-stunned-at-assanges-plight-orwell-huxley-were-both-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49263","title":{"rendered":"Roger Waters Stunned At Assange’s Plight: “Orwell & Huxley Were Both Right”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Roger Waters Stunned At Assange’s Plight: “Orwell & Huxley Were Both Right”<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters has been an outspoken advocate for Julian Assange, but the most recent sight of the reporter’s physical and mental health, at his recent court appearance, <\/a>has Waters stepping up his criticism of the establishment’s slow-assassination of the exposer of US war crimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/a>Referring to a UK judge\u2019s decision on Monday to deny the WikiLeaks founder a delay in US extradition proceedings, Waters proclaimed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOrwell and Huxley were always arguing about who had the closest view of what dystopia might look like in the future… <\/em><\/strong>I think we got a lot of both.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

As RT summarizes<\/em><\/a>, the world described by George Orwell in \u20181984\u2019 was one of mass surveillance and paranoia, where anyone could be snatched off the street by the state and made disappear for \u2018wrongthink\u2019. In \u2018Brave New World\u2019 Aldous Huxley, on the other hand, described a future where mass entertainment and the easy availability of pleasure-giving drugs made dissent virtually impossible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have the \u2018Big Brother\u2019 Orwellian dystopian nightmare, it happened two days ago in that magistrate\u2019s court,\u201d<\/em><\/strong> he explained to RT.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

And, exposing our ‘Brave New World’-isms,<\/strong> Waters points out that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou only have to look out in the street and see the people, the walking dead going by… and taking absolutely no notice of the fact that this journalist is being murdered by our government.\u201d<\/p>

\u201cAnd we walk by with our earbuds in… clicking away on our iPhones as we walk unthinking, unfeeling, uncaring through our lives,<\/strong> and allow this bullshit to take place in our names, in our courts,<\/strong>\u201d Waters concluded.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Together with veteran journalist John Pilger, the Pink Floyd frontman hosted a rally for Assange in front of the British Home Office in September, that went unreported by every single British newspaper.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Roger Waters Stunned At Assange’s Plight: “Orwell & Huxley Were Both Right” Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters has been an outspoken advocate for Julian Assange, but the most recent sight of the reporter’s physical and mental health, at his recent court appearance, has Waters stepping up his criticism of the establishment’s slow-assassination of the exposer of US […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1211,6555,2001,1235,26660,8114,4318],"class_list":["post-49263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-george-orwell","tag-huxley","tag-julian-assange","tag-orwell","tag-roger-waters","tag-rt-news","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49264,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49263\/revisions\/49264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}