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To: Dayuhan who wrote (4557)	2/3/2001 10:36:38 AM
From: jbe	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) of 82486

And just in case you are thinking to name Sparta -- the seemingly most obvious example of a place where "bitter cruelty" towards one's underlings was consistently practiced -- here is a very interesting article arguing that Sparta's repressive social structure was the cause of its eventual (and inevitable) collapse: thehistorynet.com ....Sparta broke with a sharp snap because it could not bend. The Spartans failed to rebound after Leuctra because they could not find a way to deviate from entrenched habits of rigid hierarchy, state terrorism, and social conformity. Leuctra was Sparta's fate because those habits led the Spartans to surround themselves by enemies abroad, while simultaneously feeding the angry hunger of those restive internal subjects who would happily have eaten the few remaining Similars [the top warrior caste] raw. EDIT: I have just realized you could not have named Sparta, anyway, because it did not fulfill the first term of your premise: the members of the in-group did not practice the "utmost kindness" towards one another. On the contrary, they brutalized one another. So: back to "name one!" <g> Joan

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