This Just In: Brute Force Ultimately Ineffective

Where Western Civilization Went Wrong Part One. This from a guidebook on Ancient Greece:"Rising to prominence around 700 BC, Sparta became one of the most powerful city states in Ancient Greece where the male citizens lived communally in constant readiness for war. Warriors were selected at the age of seven and subjected to rigorous training: whipping contests with young boys as the victims. Sparta was able to support its citizens as professional soldiers because it had conquered neighboring Messenia, and its enslaved population provided all the food required. "Ah and it could have worked so beautifully! All that cheap slave labor! All the fun of warping tender young natures!  Alas"Its power was based on rigid social and military discipline as well as hatred of foreigners which eventually led to its downfall since it had no allies."Translation One: Everybody hated them. Everybody always hates bullies and wounders of children, however much they also fear them.Translation Two: Our man from Nazareth said it: Live by the sword, die by the sword.Translation Three: If  we women could have run things from the get-go we’d all be a lot better off even now. :-)