CARTAGENA, Colombia (EFE).— For Juan Gabriel Vásquez, “the damage of reality was created by air and does not exist” due to the impact of social ores.
In a story at the Hay Festival, the Colombian writer said that “social leaders have turned reality into a non-existent difficulty” and that “artificial intelligence will further transform it into a non-existent difficulty”.
The author of “The Ruido de las cosas al caer” was one of the participants in the panel commemorating 50 years of the Spanish newspaper “El País”, for which he is a columnist, and Marco urged that “he has a clear awareness of the value of journalism, which is always more needed… as a place of air resistance against this type of common installations”.
“Journalism is a place where we can exercise resistance, opposition or rebellion against those we want to manipulate, against the tremendously twisted alliance, which are the things we are passing and are about to pass.”
He mentioned, he explained, “an alliance between populists in the style of (Donald) Trump and tech oligarchs, plutocrats of technology in the style of (Elon) Musk or (Mark) Zuckerberg.”
Together with Vásquez, we studied on the panel of Leila Guerriero and Leonardo Padura.
Guerriero believed that the best way to do “good journalism now is to be like good old journalism always”.
In addition, it is very important for “El País” “to support with great force, with great resistance, journalists who work for months on topics in the background, together and then to keep their place in the periodical”.
He said that the proliferation of texts should not be limited and that the quality should be prioritized that “there are texts that do not moralize the reader in the end until they fill him with doubts, questions and encourage him to practice the best way to be a citizen, which is to doubt absolutely everything”.
From the point of view
No simplification
Leonardo Padura advised that “you have to work hard in those who cannot simplify reality because you have limited space” and agreed that you do not have to stop “influencing everyone who places social circles”.
The truth and the lie
“Truth is relative and lies are absolute,” said the Cuban writer.
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