Not be a spoiler, John, but the last time modern people, capable of industrialised warfare, embraced heroic world-views (the decades beginning in 1914) tens of millions died and left the very legacy of demoralisation with which we struggle today. Old fashioned ideas (especially Bronze Age ones) have much to teach us. But balance is eve…
Not be a spoiler, John, but the last time modern people, capable of industrialised warfare, embraced heroic world-views (the decades beginning in 1914) tens of millions died and left the very legacy of demoralisation with which we struggle today. Old fashioned ideas (especially Bronze Age ones) have much to teach us. But balance is everything.
And if you wish to cite the Greeks, please consider how Sparta ended up in late classical times... when Greeks and Romans went to watch the sado-masochistic religious rites of Orthia (the Spartan Artemis) as tourists. Orthia was the goddess of fertility whose hymen was restored by taking a bath. I shudder to think what the next generation will do should they ever toughen up. It is unlikely to be an unmixed blessing.
Imagine a 'Bronze Age' paedagogy under real world conditions in the emerging North American dystopia: an Afro-Saxon culture, a diverse population, a national mania for ideology and widespread gun ownership. Forget Greeks, Scythians and Persians for a moment...imagine the Vikings of Wakanda with social norms formed by the Marvel comics of today.
Not be a spoiler, John, but the last time modern people, capable of industrialised warfare, embraced heroic world-views (the decades beginning in 1914) tens of millions died and left the very legacy of demoralisation with which we struggle today. Old fashioned ideas (especially Bronze Age ones) have much to teach us. But balance is everything.
And if you wish to cite the Greeks, please consider how Sparta ended up in late classical times... when Greeks and Romans went to watch the sado-masochistic religious rites of Orthia (the Spartan Artemis) as tourists. Orthia was the goddess of fertility whose hymen was restored by taking a bath. I shudder to think what the next generation will do should they ever toughen up. It is unlikely to be an unmixed blessing.
Imagine a 'Bronze Age' paedagogy under real world conditions in the emerging North American dystopia: an Afro-Saxon culture, a diverse population, a national mania for ideology and widespread gun ownership. Forget Greeks, Scythians and Persians for a moment...imagine the Vikings of Wakanda with social norms formed by the Marvel comics of today.