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Simeon Mitropolitski is a Canadian analyst, of Bulgarian origin, and a former syndicated columnist with the Bulgarian News Agency (BTA). He is the author of several hundred articles dealing with hot political and economic topics, both national and international.
He was part of the first group of Bulgarian intellectuals and students that began the opposition movement that finally put an end to the communist regime in this country in 1989, and in 1996-1997 participated in international observation teams during the elections in several Balkan countries - Romania, Albania and Bulgaria.
In 2002 Simeon and his family moved from Bulgaria to Canada where they live now in Montreal, province of Quebec. Simeon is a Master of Political Science from McGill University and a B.A. of Political Science and History.
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Swiss Alps, Mountains a la CarteHuman individuals are unique biosocial species. When climate and other external conditions change, other species are obliged to change their behavior, or to change their habitat, or to face the danger of physical extinction. The human species, instead, when are confronting any external inconvenience, prefers not to change profoundly its behavior, but to change the behavior of their habitat so that it becomes friendlier. This was the way, for example, people invented the air conditioning to use it during the summer heat instead of physically mutating to support these heats, or instead of migrating to some colder areas. Everything that was invented during the so-called industrial and technological revolution(s) was done with the sole thought to keep on track the human race in the midst of the constantly changing external conditions. By changing their tools, the human beings have also unwillingly changed their habitat, i.e. their external conditions of living. In fact this only accelerates the need of new tools just to keep going the human civilization. We are creating new tools just to solve the problems created for our habitat by the old ones. What will be the final goal of this entire project? Of course, nobody knows. But we can see how slowly but surely we turn the natural processes into artificial simulacrums, creating for example some artificial snow, falling on an artificial hill. Why we need the artificial snow? Maybe because some of our older tools have so dramatically changed our planet that the natural snow isn't available where it used to be. In fact, that's what is going on in Switzerland in the last years. Millions of dollars are spent to buy the snow-cannons. Initially this was made just to support the ski season in the lower mountains. Now this development has reached even the stations situated at more than 2,000 meters. In some places a "home-grown" snow has covered more than one third of the skiing surface. The ground also has to be smooth, with no stones, to guarantee the passion of skiing with just 20 sm of "snow". So millions of dollars have already been spent and more others will be spent on buying snow-cannons and on pulling out the stones, otherwise the whole tourism and other infrastructures worth of billions will remain useless. If we look back in the history, we'll see that this was exactly the way the human beings turned the dugouts of our ancestors into the modern houses that bring to us so much comfort. Just like in the virtual reality of children's videogames, we believe that this is the true snow, the true hill, and the true house... In fact, it has nothing to do with the natural world. They have all been created a la carte. The natural caves didn't keep the warm in, but our houses do. The evolution from the caves to our houses has been very slow and it still continues. Given our desire to change the things around instead of changing ourselves as biosocial species, we can be sure that even our modern dwellings aren't the final say.
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