Vargas Llosa y el nacionalismo

Dos párrafos del discurso de Mario Vargas Llosa en el acto de entrega del Premio Nobel de Literatura en diciembre  de 2010

I despise every form of nationalism, a provincial ideology – or rather, religion – that is short-sighted, exclusive, that cuts off the intellectual horizon and hides in its bosom ethnic and racist prejudices, for it transforms into a supreme value, a moral and ontological privilege, the fortuitous circumstance of one’s birthplace. Along with religion, nationalism has been the cause of the worst slaughters in history, like those in the two world wars and the current bloodletting in the Middle East. Nothing has contributed as much as nationalism to Latin America’s having been Balkanized and stained with blood in senseless battles and disputes, squandering astronomical resources to purchase weapons instead of building schools, libraries, and hospitals.

Vargas Llosa sobre Popper

Excelente artículo de Mario Vargas Llosa sobre Popper.

El joven Popper

Sin Hitler y los nazis Karl Popper no hubiera escrito nunca ese libro clave del pensamiento democrático y liberal moderno, La sociedad abierta y sus enemigos (1945), y probablemente su vida hubiera sido la de un oscuro profesor de filosofía de la ciencia confinado en su Viena natal.