Mario Vargas Llosa debates on some contemporary issues like 'liberals', 'nationalism', 'populism',
'greatest challenge to Democracy', 'intellectual honesty', 'literature and
morality', political correctness and freedom', and 'technology' To show
his review regarding these topic click here.
Mario Vargas Llosa is a Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, essayist
and college professor. Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America's most significant
novelists and essayists, and one of the leading writers of his generationseven
influential authors: Adam Smith, José Ortega y Gasset, Friedrich von Hayek,
Karl Popper, Raymond Aron, Isaiah Berlin and Jean-François Revel. His book” The
Call of the Tribe” is also an intellectual autobiography that takes the reader
from Vargas Lllosa’s Marxist and existentialist beginnings through to his
endorsement of liberalism. His
theories of freedom and the individual and talks about his new book, La llamada de la tribu, or, The Call of the Tribe, which
argues in favor of liberal thought in reference to seven influential authors:
Adam Smith, José Ortega y Gasset, Friedrich von Hayek, Karl Popper, Raymond
Aron, Isaiah Berlin and Jean-François Revel.
He talks on Political correctness is the nemesis of freedom because it rejects honesty and
authenticity. We have to tackle it as the distortion of the truth.
Llosa speaks about nationalism as a kind of racism. He says
that, if we believe that belonging to a certain country or nation , race or
religion is a privilege, a value in itself, we believe are superior to
others.
Racism comes with inequality and it inevitably leads to
violence and the supression of freedom.
The issue of populism is being challenged by the democracy.
Populism shatters democracies from within
On the question Why are there so many attacks on liberal thought?
Mario Vargas Llosa gives very interesting answer, that,
It has been targeted by ideologies that are enemies of freedom and which justifiably consider liberalism to be their most tenacious adversary. And that’s what I wanted to explain in the book. Fascism and communism have attacked liberalism strongly, mainly by caricaturing it and linking it to conservatism. In its early stages, liberalism was besieged primarily by the right. There were papal encyclicals – attacks from pulpits everywhere on a doctrine that was considered the enemy of religion and of moral values. I believe that these adversaries define the close relationship that exists between liberalism and democracy. Democracy has moved forward and human rights have been recognized basically thanks to liberal thinkers.
According to me In the post truth era there is no space for political correctness or Freedom of thought, If someone free to think, then they are not free to express their thoughts, specially on the the thoughts about nation , because if some goes in fevoure of nation so media shows its as hypocrite, or if goes against then consider as "Desh drohi" Anti nation. Same thing can be found about political correctness. As per my views "A liberal can have freedom of thoughts but not equally they have to freedom of expression
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