Roger Waters: Propaganda Is Keeping Voters Asleep Like Orwellian Sheep

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Pink Floyd icon Roger Waters has attacked the West's neoliberalism epidemic, claiming that propaganda in the media has left voters “asleep” and uncomfortable “to see anything real.”

Pink Floyd’s former frontman told Sophie Shevardnadze that those he says he should “stick to music” were “sleepwalking” when it to Syrian civil war and the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel.

“Because they’re asleep. Because they’re the victims of the neoliberalism that Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher brought to the world,” Waters said.

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According to RT: Neoliberalism’s pervasiveness through Western culture and politics, in Waters’ view, has left many people with the inability to see and accept anything critical of the mainstream narrative.

“Part of the way it works is to anaesthetize people and almost make it uncomfortable for people to see anything real.”

For Waters the root of this antipathy, in the US at least, lies in part from its poorly funded public education system.

In Waters’ view the reason for this lies in the political establishment’s desire to keep an ignorant and compliant population.

“They want to keep the electorate ignorant, and mindless, and unthinking, and malleable, and pliable, and very open to the use of consumerism and propaganda to keep them under control, to maintain the Orwellian notion of the sheep and whatever.”

Mainstream media consumption is another factor given by Waters for this outlook. Citing the “scripted carefully shot” documentary on the White Helmets, and the group’s dubious claims of a Syrian government gas attack in the city of Douma, Waters said the MSM isn’t “interested in telling you anything about anything.”

“You know, it’s so obvious now that CNN and all of them are all the same, from MSNBC to Fox and everything in between,” he said after pointing out the lack of coverage in the West after an Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) report found no evidence of chemical weapons in Douma.

“Their narrative is that there was a chemical attack and the White Helmets are wonderful.”

One US channel to escape Waters’ ire was Discovery, describing it as the “one little piece of TV in the United States where you can occasionally get a glimpse of the reality of what it’s like to be human.”

“The rest is just propaganda,” he added.