Comments on: Sparta’s Attempt At Balancing Innovation And Tradition http://www.socialmatter.net/2015/08/31/spartas-attempt-at-balancing-innovation-and-tradition/ Not Your Grandfather's Conservatism Thu, 03 Sep 2015 20:20:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.7 By: Mark Citadel http://www.socialmatter.net/2015/08/31/spartas-attempt-at-balancing-innovation-and-tradition/#comment-17809 Tue, 01 Sep 2015 15:10:20 +0000 http://www.socialmatter.net/?p=2475#comment-17809 I had always thought the Messenians were treated terribly, and that their slavery was one of the worst examples of the Ancient World. Thanks for clearing that up!

]]> By: Ezra Pound's Ghost http://www.socialmatter.net/2015/08/31/spartas-attempt-at-balancing-innovation-and-tradition/#comment-17801 Tue, 01 Sep 2015 12:12:57 +0000 http://www.socialmatter.net/?p=2475#comment-17801 A modern example of an Ephorate is the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps/Supreme Council. Any thoughts? “Heresy!”?

]]> By: AntiDem http://www.socialmatter.net/2015/08/31/spartas-attempt-at-balancing-innovation-and-tradition/#comment-17778 Tue, 01 Sep 2015 01:17:36 +0000 http://www.socialmatter.net/?p=2475#comment-17778 This article is madness.

]]> By: Ion Focas http://www.socialmatter.net/2015/08/31/spartas-attempt-at-balancing-innovation-and-tradition/#comment-17765 Mon, 31 Aug 2015 16:24:20 +0000 http://www.socialmatter.net/?p=2475#comment-17765 The decline of Sparta happened for demographic reasons. Aristotle opined that women in Sparta had too much power namely property rights, inheritance rights and participated in the traditional way of Spartan training (agoge).

Modern academics dismiss that as misogynistic but seeing the modern demographic collapse of the West that accompanied the advent of Feminism makes one think of it as a plausible explanation.

]]> By: Mai La Dreapta http://www.socialmatter.net/2015/08/31/spartas-attempt-at-balancing-innovation-and-tradition/#comment-17761 Mon, 31 Aug 2015 14:31:55 +0000 http://www.socialmatter.net/?p=2475#comment-17761 These weekly articles about the politics of ancient Greece are spectacular. Please keep them coming.

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