Today, many economists and social scientists have expressed the opinion that too much emphasis has been given to the whole concept of “globalization”during recent years. These intellectuals point to the fact that in one way or another, globalization has existed since ancient times, beginning with the Persian Empires and the Hellenistic Empires, and later on the various Roman Empires. Their position could be said is an accurate one within an economic or even an administrative context, but it is not quite accurate within a socio-cultural or anthropological context. The recent version of “globalization”which was initiated by the United States after WWII, not only aimed at controlling most of the world economically and administratively, it went much further and was much more “satanic”.

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This personal letter is directed to a real live person, a very good friend for almost twenty years. We became very close friends, as well as with her husband, first of all because I gave to her two sons the best of me as their private tutor, starting from late childhood up to the very difficult teenage years. As her husband had said many times, I was a different type of teacher, one who functioned on the ideals of ancient Greece, not only promoting the sanctity of knowledge but also the importance of freedom- freedom of expression and freedom of thought. My points of reference were always the spiritual and intellectual world of the children. I do not expect my friend to read this letter, due to various circumstances, but I would like it to serve as a sociological testament concerning today΄s human “craziness” which is quickly engulfing all social groups and all families, in most of the “developed” and “developing” countries of the world. I believe that a real and personal description of simple everyday human exchanges can better demonstrate the true existential condition of society than a “scientific” study whose essence is a one-dimensional dogmatic view of life based on established norms and values.

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