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The reunion of G-20, Washington�??s summit, is not going to change much. Two meetings, of one and a half hour each, supposedly a total of 180 minutes, which divided between 20 leaders, would be 9 minutes per speaker, just like Hora 25 Javier Aroca reminded us yesterday. Exactly nine minutes per person to change the economical world system. Doesn�??t sound like enough. There are people, in fact, that with 9 minutes they have sufficient time to do many things.

But that is not the goal. The reunion�??s goal is to provide tranquility and to generate trust. Propositions without trust are worthless, technicians say.

Yesterday, in Spain, President Zapatero reunited with the oppositional leader, Mariano Rajoy to playact. At the end, Rajoy revealed some of his �??requirements�?�:

The important thing is not the reunion, but that we are continuously invited, -he insinuated, as if it had cost little to be there. Is the new strategy of his party, guilty, between the two, to have escaped in the past from the G-20.

The PP leader now bets on a �??new monetary political design,�?� �??to establish a new frame of political supervision and financial regulation,�?� and promote �??measurements of support to the emerging countries, like those in Latin America�?� and truthfully that sounds more like PSOE. This is not all he said

Spain must �??go to Washington�?� like �??a member of the European Union,�?� �??added, even when Aznar, his governmental president, was the least European in our history. �??The stands must remain solidified, or the same as all other European countries�?� �??he added, it is not good for a leftist party to appear like Sarkozy or Merkel�??s government.

With that message, Rajoy tries to avoid that Zapatero defends in Washington the return to social democracy.

Zapatero�??s meeting with the oppositional leader, Rajoy, is positive to illustrate cordiality. However, PSOE does not have to nor shouldn�??t assume the discourse of PP, or of the rest of the European countries. The Spanish government is a progressive government.

That is how the voters desired it. One expects that his voice, in international instances, gives honor to his position. Whether Mariano Rajoy,�??the flexible,�?� likes it or not.

Often we discover that the values that we take as positive and universal are not necessarily. At times, those values have been imposed, like moral laws, for the simple reason of social organization. The anthropologist Eduard Fuchs remembers in his �??story illustrated from the Sexual morality,�?� that �??monogamy grows from the concentration of wealth in a few hands and from the need to delegate such wealth to their children and not to others.  The legitimized inheritance was his first and last objective.�?� Marriage, then, is intimately bonded to the concept of private property.  

OPINION
Fernando Berlín the author of this blog, is the director of Radiocable.com and participates in various media in Spain. About me My email �?� ENGLISH EDITION HOME

The prologue says that in the 19th century, the �??prudish, formalist, and snooty�?� bourgeois found it shocking that nudity contained sexual and moral behaviors, not only from other towns but also from their ancestors, they overcame their dreams and daring fantasies with greatness�?��?� True.  A simple journey through time proofs that certain behaviors we are stunned by live naturally within each one of us.  

Harriman, Whitney, Pulitzer, Kennedy�?� Intellectuals and millionaires have broken in many occasions throughout history the topic of a relationship between two people. �??As a social class �??explains the writer Barbara Foster in �??Love Triangles�?� �?? they have been astute enough to leave morality to the bourgeois.�?�  Jean Paul Sartre, the promoter of existentialism, and Simone de Beauvoir, his wife, create a grand capacity to incorporate women in their relationship and often included men. Jack Kerouac, who inaugurated the beat generation, also explored triangular relationships, sharing bed with Carolyn Cassady and her husband Neal.The list goes on but it has something in common: The protagonists questioned the morality of their time, they faced the social pressures, and were greatly existentialist, they knew they were running out of time.

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