The Spartan Rattler

Tales of the Socratic Future : III

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Any learning plans to arrive at a result someday. When it does it may well arrive in a suite that's 6' 2" and weighs in at 250 lbs. That as my tailor would say, ' has a future.' 

 

The Neanderthal experience, sometimes referred to with friendly sarcasm, hides the power of virtue behind the façade of overwhelming strength. Someone that tough seldom looks for a fight but will oblige when someone aches for one. History records the occurrence of the event at the same time as the mutation of the gene for digesting milk. A coincidence or the best kept secret in the US Secret Services?

 

In Sparta, in what appeared as the final stage for the cultivation of the human decorum, there emerged in their experience, what the Greeks may have thought they had left behind in Asia Minor. It represented itself as the semblance of the Gods. This took place in Troy and the rest is of course common knowledge.

 

The battle to free themselves from the Persians was still some distance away off the seas of Samothrace. Here in about 290 BC the Greek goddess, Nike, guided an effort to free the Aegean once and for all from Persian hegemony. In what must have been viewed as Gods against Gods, it referred to the practice of trial by battle to contest outcomes. 

 

A Spartan is unaccustomed to the civil exercise of the mind but is adept at logical thinking. He exercises that in relation to the intense physical presence they experience in all things they deal with. Add to that the merry cheerfulness of milk qualities and we have a sporting enthusiast who just likes things to be fair to all.

 

Their complaint about Troy may well have involved the continued delays by Troy for dealing with the Persian issue. Here at last, was the Spartan initiative for replacing Troy with Gods that pulled out all the stops to get to victory. That they did with the ingenuity of children. Some of that continues to this day.