RE: Extinction Threat: Jeremy Grantham Letter on Chemical Castration
I'm reminded of the Spartans when I read these posts of yours about fertility rate and its implications on the sustenance of society and the species itself. Their society imploded through a combination of perpetual war and a lack of adequate reproduction to replace the warriors who perished in those wars. I did a post on it in my early days here on Steem after watching a documentary about it. It was very disturbing to learn of their cultural practices in regards to children and child-rearing. I had known about their infanticidal practices from my history classes, but the forced homosexual practices from childhood and the rape of boys as the preferred adult male sexual practice was probably considered too taboo for high schoolers and was equally as disturbing. Something else that I noted about them was that their economic philosophy seemed to closely mirror modern examples of communism. Why the Spartans are a celebrated icon is beyond my understanding. They seem to be one of the worst examples of humanity that has ever been seen.
I think we may have seen the same documentary. It was a talk eye opener.
There was something to be admired in an army trained to fight so well as to instill fear and respect through the ages, but it is funny that the price of this is rarely talked about. A society where only one thing is valued above all else has no balance and is pretty much guaranteed to collapse. You'd think it a lesson to be learnt from history, but instead we revere them for that fighting prowess and abstinence of all comfort, which ultimately brought about their extinction via their tunnel vision.