CONTEMPORARY DEBATES AND MARIO VARGOS LLOSA

     

                          Mario Vargas Llosa: Political Correctness is the enemy of freedom.

Mario Vargas Llosa is a Peruvian writer, Journalist, essayist and college professor. he is one of the Latin American's most significant novelist and essayist, one of the leading writer of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had larger international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom. In 2010 he won Nobel Prize in Literature(Wikipedia).

This man belongs to school of thought that believes in individual as an autonomous and responsible being and freedom as the supreme asset. He debated about political ideology like nationalism, democracy, communism, Liberalism, populism, intellectual honesty, Literature and morality, political correctness and freedom and technology.

• Liberals: liberal thought means who think freely and want freedom, why it has been targeted by ideology so, we can say that ideological people believes that liberal thought may harm our  ideology like in India many ideological group attacked those people who celebrating Valentines day. Because, they think that this kind of liberals activity harmful to culture.
  

• Nationalism: Llosa speak about Nationalism as a kind of racism. He says that, if we believe that belonging to a certain country or nation or race or religion is a privilege, a value in itself, we believe are superior to others. E.g we can see Nationalism in India that power or ideology strictly follow nationalism. nationalism is good but you can not ask anyone to follow the ideology of nation because that is oppose to freedom like National Anthem in cinema.

• Political correctness is the enemy of freedom: Political correctness means one must speak in favor of power, if you speak against power and ideology then you may  targeted or become anti-national or may be killed also. So, Political correctness is the enemy of freedom.

• Intellectual Honesty: Llosa also states that blindly intellectual have always seen democracy as a mediocre system that lacked the beauty, perfection and coherence of big ideologies, and this blindness is not incompatible with great intelligence. Ideology may not consider intellectual honesty's ideas, work they may be killed like Gauri Lankesh or those who raise their voice against ideology or power.

• Populism:  The issue of populism us being challenged by the democracy, Populism shatters democracies from within, populism connected with right and left.

• Technology: technology is good but now a days it is spoiling by fake news and post truth. Now a days technology used to serve lies and post truth thus, this is targeted by enemy of freedom.