Pessimism Salmantino

People are so great that boasts up to their mistakes. Years ago, an editorial group was ahead of the competition by taking a newspaper to hit book:

-You are going to hit a milk-told me with a suddenness that always characterized.

-Since the idea is ours, we prefer to give the thud before others copy us.

Of course that took the blow, but so happy, because their competitors could not ruin a similar project.

At the level of social groups goes something like that. To the locals, for example, to make them grace the jokes that put them in boastful:

-Are we the milk. What do you believe then?

Instead, we spend a pessimism Salamanca funeral, like that cartoon character, Tristan, who always addressed her partner Leoncio with the plaintive words: "Oh, heavens, what we eat today?"

This thought comes to me many times when I read the column of my admired Juan Carlos Garcia-Regalado who often lash out with sharp intelligence mediocrity of our collective life.

In what seems, is not the only one who sees things that way. I checked the other day on a television talk show in which he participated with people as lucid as Maria Garcia, Emilio Gonzalez-Coria and Isabel Nieto. Speaking about the future of Salamanca, after a while all about who painted rivalizábamos bleaker. Such was the thing, Cesar Garcia, host of the program, I blurted out,

-Enrique, you who spend more time outside, could not give a touch of optimism?

Going to be so, because Salamanca is much better than we think and more likely than other places ranging from cute for life.

Without going any further, Valencia, where I now live, has been polished into a paste that does not and dilapidated monumental works such as Science City and Terra Mitica. And Catalonia, meanwhile, discovers that the deficit has increased to the benefit of the plunderers of Palau and other corrupt, as the case of Pretoria.

Salamanca, without putting a virtual drive, could become the capital of the Castilian, rather than others with less merit. He has college brand, reputation, infrastructure ... and the possibility of shelter near Madrid to companies that produce smoke rather than talent, that which today is called I + D + i.

There is no utopia, but of course, the downside remains the same: the secular pessimism Salamanca there is no way to eradicate.