Why is the disappearance of the “Neanderthal” Man 30,000 years ago, significant today? (Part D)

As we have mentioned in Part C of our article ,there have been 4 “major ice ages” in the past, and the Earth is currently experiencing the fourth “major ice age” which began 2.5 million years ago.We also mentioned that within each “major ice age”,there are climatic cycles which last approximately 100,000 years.We have the cycle of glacial advance called “glacial period”,when the Earth,s atmospheric temperature decreases causing glacial advance from the Poles towards the Equator, lasting approximately 60,000 years; then there is a warming cycle called “interglacial period”,when the Earth΄s atmospheric temperature increases and a glacial retreat occurs towards the Poles,lasting approximately 40,000 years.

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“Slumdog Millionaire” – the movie (2008); Cultural Globalization* not a Cosmopolitan** Culture (Part C)

Before we move on to the Cosmopolitan Culture which film director Mira Nair promoted through her first feature film “Salaam Bombay” in 1988,and later on with her other feature films,documentaries and cultural activities within the U.S.A and in other countries,I would like to introduce one last information in order to demonstrate how “corrupt”, “immoral” and “machiavellian” Cultural Globalization can be,when it has to protect its interests(financial and ideological), from persons who may threaten their global strategies.

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Aristotle Onassis – the ideal type of a modern “Neanderthal” (Part C)

thumbch_on_nea_largeIn essence,Onassis initiates his shipping activities in the beginning of the 1930s in Argentina,when he buys with his first money 2 old steamboats,which he names them “Socrates” and “Pinnelope” in honour of his parents.We Greeks,are always “first” in these acts of “superficial family sentimentality”!!But Aristotle Onassis soon realises,that the “big money” in the future ,will come from transporting “oil” by the various ocean lanes.As a consequence ,almost all his next moves in the shipping sector would be acquiring oil ship-carriers and transporting oil,especially from the oil producing countries of the Middle East.During this same period(1930s),he bought 10 merchant vessels from a Canadian company for 120,000 american dollars.At the same time,he registers all his ships in Panama(not in Greece),where the tarrifs and taxes are much lower than those of Argentina.In 1938,he builds his own oil carrier at the shipyards of Sweden,the “Ariston”,with a volume capacity of 15,000 tons (p.2.www.onassis.gr/enim_deltio/34_06/special_2.php ).

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“Slumdog Millionaire” – the movie (2008); Cultural Globilization* not a Cosmopolitan** Culture (Part B).

“Slumdog Millionaire” the movie,directed by the British director Danny Boyle,produced by the American producer Christian Colson,and distributed by the all-powerful American distributing company Fox Searchlight,was released at the end of 2008,and by June 2009,had grossed more than 213 million american dollars worldwide(p.2.www.themiamihurricane.com/2009/ 04/05/slumdog-kids-remain…).

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Why is the disappearance of the “Neanderthal” Man 30,000 years ago, significant today? (Part C)

“Glacial age” or “ice age”, defines scientifically a period in the Earth΄s geological evolution when there is”a long- term reduction in the temperature of the Earth΄s surface and atmosphere,resulting in an expansion of continental ice sheets,polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers.”(p.1.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_age).

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“Slumdog Millionaire”-the movie (2008);Cultural Globalization* not a Cosmopolitan** Culture (Part A)

A few friends and even some youg students of mine ,suggested that I should go and see “Slumdog Millionaire”,the movie, because they not only thought it was a very entertaining movie but that it also had great originality in its story and production.They especially emphasized the fact that many of the young Indian children who acted as real stars in the movie ,were not professional actors but ordinary youngsters who had been living all their lives in the slum areas of Mumbai or Bombay.

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Aristotle Onassis-the ideal type of a modern “Neanderthal” (Part B)

The most accurate and complete description that has been recorded concerning Aristotle Onassis΄”philosophy of life”, has been provided by his closest assistant and the President of the Onassis Foundation, Stelios Papadimitriou. He said the following of Onassis which I will transelate it from Greek into English:”His enterpreneurial designs and aspirations were enormous. Early on, he understood that life belongs to the strong who dare, not to the bold who are powerless, or the strong who sit quiet. He worshiped human courage and strength, and he reached his hand out as far as he could;but with great caution so that it wouldn΄t get cut off” (p. 8 www.rodosport.gr/enlefko/onasis.htm)

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Why is the disappearance of the “Neanderthal” Man 30,000 years ago, significant today? (Part B)

From what has been provided as scientific evidence,we have today,the following information concerning the basic “genetic” and “anatomical” characteristics of the “Neanderthal”Man. First of all,we know that the “size” of the brain of the Neanderthal was larger than that of modern human beings. Second, Neanderthals had all the anatomical characteristics (skull structure) which suggest that they were able to speak as modern humans do today. Third, the skeletons discovered demonstrate that Neanderthals had identical “bone count” and “types” as ourselves.Finally,through the science of “genetics”,we have learned that the DNA of Neanderthals is very close to that of the “Cro-Magnon” Man and the Homo-Sapien, our only direct ancestors genetically (www.conservapedia.com/Neanderthal). With so many common anatomical and genetic characteristics with those of the “Cro-Magnon”Man and of course with us,what were the causes for the complete disappearance of the “Neanderthal” Man? Not only “from the face of the earth”, but also from the genetic composition (DNA) of modern human beings!

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Aristotle Onassis – an ideal type of a modern “Neanderthal” (Part A )

thumbon_neThere are two basic reasons why I have chosen Aristotle Onassis as an ideal type of a modern “Neanderthal”;one is personal and the other is more general. The first reason has to do with the older son of the woman friend to whom I have dedicated all those personal letters in my site. The son had been my student since he was 12 years old until the time he went abroad for his university studies. His father, who is a truly successful businessman, had only once given him a book as a present(from what I know), and that was when he was 17 years old. This particular book was the biography of Aristotle Onassis, and his son revealed to me that his father wanted him by reading this book to acquire the “proper guidelines” in becoming “socially successful” and of course “financially powerful”. “At that time”, the son considered his father΄s gesture as strange, while I don΄t think he ever read the book.

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“Playing it dumb”…..!!!

I have a former student who is doing postgraduate studies in a European country, and who is a regular reader of my site. I honour him, I respect him and I love him very much because he is a young person who is trying to “disentangle” himself from the mediocrity and the greyness of the established social roles, so that he can evolve into a real creative individual with a universal conscience. Yet, I consider it a bit strange when this young man, often expresses the opinion that my texts are not very optimistic. And I always try to explain to him that just the process of trying to identify what is real, is an act of faith and hope. Turning now to my friend Phedros from the swimming pool (extra-The psychological state of the young today, 2009-02-01), our exchange of messages have almost but stopped due to the fact that I had been trying to explain to him my position that it is not enough just to recognize all those harsh and impersonal everyday realities;but it is also very imperative to question all these everyday realities, in a substantial way if they subvert our personality and our psyche. And this can be realized only when one begins to recognize and respect one΄s own personality and the creative potentialities of life itself, not the limited and unnatural framework of a “virtual society”.

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