Context for the last line: Instant loss 2-koma is a genre of (usually NSFW) anime art divided into two panels, with a character proudly proclaiming something on the first panel and then being proven incredibly wrong on the second.
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It's so. If you would care to read more about it, I can highly recommend this blog https://acoup.blog/2019/08/16/collections-this-isnt-sparta-part-i-spartan-school/
Goddamnit. This really kills any idea that we as a species might be redeemable. It’s just rinse and fucking repeat over many millennia. Sigh.
In my view, taking the Spartan myth down a few pegs is redemptive - for those of us who have not benefited from the fraud. It's nothing but false machismo and literal rape culture that have only served to give comfort to societies built on cruelty and inequality.
You're not wrong to feel that humans can be tiresome in their follies, but charitably, some of that must be caused by familiarity. We're the species whose entire evolutionary niche is cooperation and friendliness. Most of the animal kingdom are jerks by any fair comparison. If we had lived as ants, our grievances about our peers would be all the more bleak.
We need to stop letting people rule. No gods, no kings.