Re: Snail mail vs. Email

[Kurt Buff <kurt.buff () gmail com>]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 22:11, Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com> wrote:
> Sparta, as one of the first democracies, had it right. They put the
> public officials on trial when their term expired because they knew
> what Class A fuck-ups they were. Its funny how that lesson was lost to
> history.
>
> Jeff

Sparta in the Classical age and earlier was not a democracy. They were
a set of invaders who had enslaved the native Hellenes in the area (as
opposed to buying slaves or capturing slaves in battle, which is what
the other Hellenic city-states did), and which had kings and enforced
military servitude from approximately ages 8 to 50 or so. And,
actually, Athens, though it was the Western birthplace of democracy,
free speech and all that, wasn't a very pretty society itself. Aside
from the primitive state of technology, they were a religion- and
superstition-bound society to a degree that most modern cultures would
have difficulty comprehending.

Not something I think we should emulate.

Kurt

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