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A Deep Dive Into the Work of a Comic Genius: Chuck Jones - the Evolution of an Artist

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam7/19/2015 7:52:39 am PDT

re: #294 Dark_Falcon

They probably are, and are depicting themselves as members of The 300, standing against the despot-led foreign horde. They likely have never been told that the Spartans were far worse in their treatment of the peasants than Xerxes ever was.

But most white people in Anglosphere nations do not identify with peasants, they identify with yeoman farmers who owned their own land. But to correct represent those people, these guys would have to display Theban insignia or else build a replica of a Greek trireme and place on its bow a bust of Pallas Athena. For the Spartan ‘Equals’ had no job except war, while farmer-soldiers formed the phalanxes of Athens and Thebes.

The Spartans had their own version of slavery, with the elite living on the labors of the working class. And they tested their boys for service in the army by putting them out in the wilderness with nothing at all. Those that managed not to die or get killed by wild animals on the way back home were considered fit for service.

Plus, you had to serve in the army until you were 30. Then you could participate in the governance of Sparta.

Most of these yokels sporting Molon Labe would not have survived childhood in Sparta, much less service in the Spartan infantry.

Oh, yeah. Babies that were deformed or deemed unfit were left out in the wilderness for the animals to eat. I wonder how the pro-lifers would feel about that aspect of Spartan society.