Anyway, I thought this comment was not too far off the mark, but the follow up comment was a bit funny nonetheless:
Tuesday, July 23, 2019
Some Guardian funnies
Author John Marsden has a piece at The Guardian in which he complains about over-parenting and the harm he sees it doing to kids education these days. (He apparently now runs a couple of private schools in the bush where physical activity is far from discouraged.)
Anyway, I thought this comment was not too far off the mark, but the follow up comment was a bit funny nonetheless:
Anyway, I thought this comment was not too far off the mark, but the follow up comment was a bit funny nonetheless:
nothing wrong with sparta except that bit about shaving their wives' heads
ReplyDeleteUhuh. Didn't realise you were into endorsing infanticide and military homosexuality, as long as the men were manly enough.
ReplyDeleteno social mobility in Sparta Soony.
ReplyDeleteVery retrograde.
I'm expecting, but not desiring, Graeme to turn up with an expression of regret that the Spartans didn't deal with the Jews. It will be deleted if he does...
ReplyDeleteStoicism then. We could do with a lot more of that. There are too many whiners in society. I'm amazed when I hear people complaining of depression and anxiety because X happened to them because I experienced big traumas in my life so by their standards I should be locked up in a psych ward. People need to toughen up.
ReplyDelete"I'm expecting, but not desiring, Graeme to turn up with an expression of regret that the Spartans didn't deal with the Jews. It will be deleted if he does..."
ReplyDeleteMomentarily if so. Stop fooling yourself. Your blog is not your own, since your patriotism is not yet assured. Its understandable that Soon .... a brother too us all ..... has overstated his case in support of the dubious Spartans. Because the Spartans represent something sorely needed and something that we have been starved of. The willingness to die on higher ground for local sovereignty. Their whole society was geared up for same. Even the greatest of virtues can be perverted if taken to the nth degree. Ayn Rand was correct about so many things, Hans Hermanne Hoppe is even more correct but the good ideas can become bad, or merely silly, or still good but inapplicable if we take them too far.
We need the SPIRIT of Sparta so desperately right now, but without the bad stuff. Its like I would say that we need Andrew Jackson to come back and sort things out for us. I mean we need the spirit and the attitude of Andrew Jackson. But we can do without the Indian massacres and the dispossession of people from their homelands. Same sort of comparison.