Dear employer, I'm sad to live in the world that we live in violence there, which is tolerated by poverty, disregard for the environment, for the arrogance of some, the lack of dialogue ... But at the same time I am happy to have fellow citizens who have lived and I live in Catalonia. I say this without it being an exercise in complacent, but from the grief caused by death and the outrage generated by the fraud of those who govern.

Last year, a week after the demonstration in Barcelona against the war in Iraq, I wrote in an article entitled Lessons of a demonstration, quoted in three: 1) citizens of today are the citizens of knowledge society and we can not be treated as citizens of industrial society, 2) do not neglect the citizens of our democratic rights, our dignity, and we prove it in extreme situations, and this should make us think when we do not claim that it is not, but we are vigilant until it passes the line and, if so, then is when do we (and vote), and 3) the requirement of consistency between what one says and what is.

Dear friend, what we learned last year, is confirmed as true. Catalonia at least, these three phenomena occur and shape social traits, among others, which must take into consideration those who govern us in society and those who went to the companies. Do not forget that most citizens are also employees.

Spain will have another government and that makes me recover another article that I published in the October 2002, entitled Together. They were difficult times politically, crispats, and without any kind of dialogue - and now finally have all of these last four years. Then I wrote: "Today we can invent the future, we do it, and not just economically but socially and politically. If today we have more knowledge than twenty five years and if the world has changed and we have done in the intellectual disposition to invent, have no fear. Review and consensus not coercion and abuse.

From the rancor that we could suffer, however legitimate from the perspective of the initial suffering, not built, it falls into a state where past social dogmatism and hatred are vital foundations. The revenge creates a vicious circle where the chain of revenge is endless and can be transmitted in certain societies, from one generation to another. The result is that both sides suffer and life poisoned. Some people even believe that hate is good for national interest, however, countered this thinking is the basis of the spirit of nonviolence and understanding. "The last phrase was the Dalai Lama , Nobel Peace Prize in 1989.

In the last paragraph of that article said: "Managing Today, the twenty-first century is an exercise in dialogue, respecting the sentiments and identities, interests and expectations of each, in order to reach an agreement. If the social, political, economic, scientific and technological agreements that make coexistence difficult in the past today, we return to dialogue and reach new agreements. Or evolve or suffer. "

Catalan society, clearly, and the mostly Spanish, said that we have evolved and do not want suffering. Surely, there is hope, but much hope. I think we all wish that the next state government "will not fail" and at the same time, the party now in government to learn the values ​​and principles of democracy, because there may be alternation without suffering.

Dear employer will think that this week I worked with both bit go to the file, and maybe you're right. Now, I am of you believe we should not reinvent the wheel every time, and I wrote months ago is that I still believe, and my concern social policy and asked me to express myself on the present moment.

I hope that Sebastian Vivas, director of DE, I do not consider.

Joseph Albet

Professor at ESADE

Director DIRECTORS ALBET BCN

jalbet@albetconsellersbcn.org