Sunday, February 04, 2007

Peloponnesian War

Was the Peloponnesian war Athens' Vietnam? The disastrous twenty-seven year war fought between the rival Greek city-states of Athens and Sparta from 431-404 B.C.E. was part of a growing economic rivalry as well as arising from political differences. Sparta was a military dictatorship and Athens a democracy.

Although Athens achieved some military successes in the war, particularly through its navy which was far superior to that of Sparta, the war turned out badly and ended with Athens' surrender in 404 BC.

"The war between Athens and the Athenian empire versus Sparta, Thebes, Corinth, and other members of the Peloponnesian Confederacy. Large scale campaigns and heavy fighting took place from Sicily to the coast of Asia Minor and from the Hellespont and Thrace to Rhodes. It was the first war in history to be recorded by an eyewitness historian of the highest caliber. It has come down through history as the archetypal war between a commercial democracy and an agricultural aristocracy and a war between a maritime superpower and a continental military machine." The Peloponnesian War

For Athens war was equal to a never ending crisis, and once they lost the war the Athenians were left starving. The question is why would humans destroy themselves, their society and their cultures like this over and over again? War, destruction, death, war, destruction, death. Apparently humans do not learn from this... they keep going and making the same mistakes again and again. Especially as in wars there are no winners.

Is it: The Controller Agenda?

Some group attempted to overpower humanity.

The field of attack was psychological and perceptual.
Human thinking was superior to theirs.
Something about their pleasure and beauty is off.
They succeed, but only through deception because...
...There is such a thing as "divinity."
...It is implied that we have it.
...They lack it.

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