The Greek Parliamentary Elections of 2009; a mirror-image of the present “Political Culture” of the country (Part B)

In the first part of our article, after observing the various “simulated” and “empty” political behavioral patterns of political personalities, of journalists, of political analysts, of gallop statisticians, of managers of the private and public media, as well as of state officials who oversee all processes related to registering and transmitting all voting results; what we mean , as we observed this ” tasteless theatrical performance” played out on Sunday night, October 4 2009, the set date for Greece’s Parliamentary Elections, we decided that it was “worth the effort” to examine “honestly” and “objectively” the degree of “political maturity” and “democratization” which exists within the context of Greece’s “modern political culture”.

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Aristotle Onassis – An ideal type of a modern “Neanderthal” – Epilogue (c)

Alexander Onassis (1948-1973), the only son of Aristotle Onassis, in spite of his youth and his father’s many “gold coins”, during the brief time he lived as an “adult”, he demonstrated that he not only had a strong personality and a sharp mind, but that he also faced the everyday moments of his life, with fortitude, with pathos, with a lot of sensitivity and objectivity, contrary to his father and mentor (in a negative sense). One time, while Alexander was discussing his father’s marital relations with Jackie Kennedy, he said the following:”…My father loves names (the famous and the powerful) and Jackie loves money…” (p. 1. http://thinkexist.com/quotes/alexander_onassis/).

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