It will take many years until a liberal volume and back again will provide a forum such as the Nobel media to say a few truths well said. The Swedish Academy, so fond of political correctness (ie, the dominant goodism is just a mask over collectivism that prevails everywhere), has desecrated the common sense giving peace prizes to people like the murderer Arafat, the manipulator Al Gore, Obama just released or a UN organization where the worst dictatorships are so represented as the best democracies and are allowed to treat the latter first face to face, as if its legitimacy were the same.
Many times, Nobel economics prize has also led his share of ideological indoctrination, as that was the award to Paul Krugman. Even the Nobel Prize for Literature has meant the most rabid promotion of collectivism to be awarded to writers who, regardless of artistic merit were strong proponents of outdated ideologies (the recently deceased José Saramago is the closest example to our culture).
Over a period of brilliance, the two Nobel prizes have gone to the biggest impact this year on two figures who oppose statism: Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, absent in the award by the minutiae of being imprisoned Asian giant's regime, and the Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa and English. When we have been enjoying a powerful speech and without cracks, brave and strong as it leaves us as priceless as these paragraphs?
Camus and Orwell [I taught], that ura literat devoid of morals is inhumane and Malraux that heroism and epic fit now as much as at the time of the Argonauts, the Odyssey and the Iliad.
Like all ages have had their horrors, ours is the fans, that of suicide bombers, ancient species killing convinced that paradise is gained, the blood of the innocent lava collective affronts, injustice and imposes corrects the truth about false belief. Countless victims are sacrificed each day at various locations around the world who feel possessors of absolute truths. We thought that with the collapse of totalitarian empires, coexistence, peace, pluralism, human rights, would be imposed and the world would back the holocausts, genocides, invasions and wars of extermination. None of that has happened. Proliferate new forms of barbarism fueled by fanaticism
must stand in their way, confront and defeat . Not many, but the sound of their crimes reverberate around the globe and we are overwhelmed with horror the nightmares they cause. We must not be intimidated by those who would take away the freedom we have been winning in the long feat of civilization. defend liberal democracy, with all its limitations, still means pluralism political , coexistence, tolerance, human rights, respect criticism, law, free elections, the alternation power, everything that has gone feral life drawing
In my youth, like many writers of my generation, was a Marxist and believed socialism would be the remedy for the exploitation and social injustice .[...] My disappointment of statism and collectivism, and my transition to liberal Democrat and I am [...] was long, difficult , and carried out slowly and following the conversion episodes as the Cuban Revolution , I was excited at first, the vertical and authoritarian model of the Soviet Union, the testimony of dissidents who managed to slip through the barbed wire the Gulag, the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact countries, thanks to thinkers like Raymond Aron , Jean-François Revel, Isaiah Berlin and Karl Popper,
dictatorships have less than before, only Cuba and its candidate to go along, Venezuela, and some clowns populist and pseudo-democracies such as Bolivia and Nicaragua.
is regrettable that democratic governments, instead of setting an example, in solidarity with those who, as the Ladies in White in Cuba, the Venezuelan-resistant, or Aung San Suu Kyi and Liu Xiaobo, who e ACING with temerity to dictatorships who suffer be displayed often complacent not to them but with their executioners . Those brave, fighting for their freedom, also fighting for ours. [...]
the English transition from dictatorship to democracy has been one of the best stories of modern times,
Hopefully nationalism, incurable plague the modern world and also Spain, do not spoil this happy story.
hate all forms of nationalism, ideology, or, rather, religion provincial, short flight, exclusive, that trims the intellectual horizon and hides in its bosom ethnic and racial prejudices, it becomes the supreme value, in moral privilege and ontological, the happenstance of birth rather than . Along with religion, nationalism has been the cause of the worst slaughters of history,
Ladies and gentlemen, with you, the Nobel Prize in Literature 2010, His Excellency, Mario Vargas Llosa. Read, enjoy and reflect.
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