Víctor Pérez Velasco believes that values "can change and transform with information," and highlights the importance of truth and information in decision-making and changing these values.
Psychologist by profession, Víctor Pérez Velasco presented a talk at the University of Las Hespérides about his penultimate work, titled "Political Values and Conflict in Spain," related to his doctoral thesis on organizational culture and values in the workplace. The story of this book begins when he realized that his dissertation was having an impact, especially in Iberoamerica, so he decided to tackle "the contradictions of political values in Spain" today. His goal with this work was to disseminate and discuss the minimum values he perceives in Spanish politics, warning about how these values "could face us with a complicated future."
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Pérez Velasco identifies forty political values in his analysis and organizes them into groups to explore their differential impact. He acknowledges that the values are intangible and difficult to measure, but emphasizes their importance in shaping people's beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors. In this way, he concludes that values "can change and transform with information," highlighting the importance of truth and information in decision-making and value change.
"We need to have the doctrine that we want to have, not one they impose on us that they say is information, but it turns out to be a doctrine," he said. That's how he wanted to differentiate between doctrine ("a view of reality, a symbolic universe about a concept or an abstract existence of the individual") and information, "which is measured, evaluated and contrasted." The problem today, he maintains, is that social communicators "say they inform us, but really what they do is indoctrinate us".
As one of the core aspects of his work, he emphasized that values "influence personality, but do not change it," rather "they surround the personality and serve to guide that personality towards a goal." His book focuses on a list of 42 values, grouped in this way: 17 communist values, 14 socialist values, 13 conservative values, 12 liberal values, 7 values of peripheral nationalisms, and 5 constitutional values.
Of these values, 17 of them act as "counter-values, condemning us to confrontation" and among them are 5 nationalists, 8 communists, and 4 socialists. "The most destabilizing values in my opinion are those of peripheral nationalism," he asserted. That's why he said the current moment in Spain is one of "great contradiction", with a real conflict that is "breaking the Rule of Law".