Catalonia secede from Spain?

My name is Catalan and so is a part of my heritage and yet I find Ricard Gonzalez and Jaume Clotet's "Spanish Prisoner" editorial in the New York Times as pathetic, childish and trivial.  Why don't they examine Switzerland, the Helvetic Confederation, as a system of retaining their culture as well as nationality and stop wasting time dreaming of a solution that solves nothing.