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Even successful people have a success rate below 100%, and the more things you try the more failures you will accrue. For any successful person that has ever li
by 29athrowaway 3y ago
Even successful people have a success rate below 100%, and the more things you try the more failures you will accrue. For any successful person that has ever lived you can cherrypick all their failures and write an article like this.
The only person that doesn't fail is the person that never tries anything. Being successful is not about never failing.
This article completely ignores the Battle of Thermopylae which is probably one of the things Spartans are the most known for. In that sense, the author himself failed to portray Spartans fairly, making him a failed historian.
In 100 years this historian will be completely forgotten.
- santoshalper 3y agoImagine being so sensitive to criticism of people who you never met, existed thousands of years ago, and you only really know about through an absurd pop-culture portrayal. Somebody has taken way too much of his identity from 300.
- 29athrowaway 3y agoIt's very clear that the aim of the article is not talking about Sparta. It's talking about how modern society should fit the expectations of this historian more. And his aspirations would be to have a society less like Sparta. Meaning less fit, respected people that get mobilized to protect their territory and more of the opposite perhaps? The semantic opposite is flaccid, laughable people that get invaded all the time. Perhaps that would be more aligned with the author's preferences.