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> Would, say, young people drafted for war from a modern Spartan society experience the same trauma in war as young people drafted from Berkeley? Most of Spart
by humanrebar 7y ago
> Would, say, young people drafted for war from a modern Spartan society experience the same trauma in war as young people drafted from Berkeley?
Most of Sparta was slaves, and the upper class participated in murder of slaves as a rite of passage, so I doubt there is a lot in common.
- ajross 7y agoAlso, ancient Spartans were hardly immune to PTSD. They were just much less likely to be treated for the symptoms in any real way (or, frankly, to survive the events that cause them). There's really no good evidence that PTSD is a modern thing at all. What's really, and ironically, happening here is that "Sparta" is a movie utopia us pathetic moderners have invented to mask our anxieties behind an ideal about Real Men who spent their lives kicking Persians into giant pits instead of dealing with credit overdrafts (and, occasionally, PTSD).