Babelia The number 1.000 of the prestigious supplement of the newspaper El Pais in Spain, today published the prologue to the forthcoming book by Mario Vargas Llosa, "Civilization of the show" . In this paper, intelligent and controversial as it always is our Nobel Prize, there are fragments that warning to the current dominant culture, such as:
"We have never lived and now in an age so rich in scientific and technological findings and better equipped to beat the disease, ignorance and poverty and however, we have perhaps never been so confused and lost about certain basic issues like what we do here in this star with no light of its own that we had, if mere survival is the sole North justifying life, if words like spirit, ideals, pleasure, love, solidarity, art, creativity, soul, transcendence, still mean something, and if yes, what exactly is on them and what not. "
"Before, the raison d'être of culture was a response to this kind of questions, but what we understand by culture is completely exempt from such liability, we have been doing it something much more superficial and fickle, or a form of light entertainment for the general public or a rhetorical game, esoteric and obscurantist factions vain for his back to the whole society. "
"In the past, culture was always to do with those issues and was often best to call attention to such problems, an awareness that prevented educated people turn away from harsh and rude reality of their time. Now, rather, what we call culture is a mechanism to ignore the problematic issues, distract us from what is serious, immersed in a momentary "artificial paradise", slightly less than a substitute for a drag of marijuana or pull of coca, that is, a small vacation of unreality. "
"I want to put on my protest, so it is worth, which I know will not be long. There are too many interests involved, Helas. Probably the phenomenon described in this paper a few notes have no remedy, because it is already part of a way of being, to live, to dream and to believe in our time, and what this book misses is dust and ashes without resurrection possible. But it could be, too, because nothing stands still in the world we live in, that this phenomenon, the civilization of the show, perish unnoticed, by nature of its own inanity and trifle, and another replaces it, perhaps better, perhaps worse, the society of the future. "Making
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Literature. Mario Vargas Llosa . civilization of spectacle. Newspaper El Pais, Spain.
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