The politics of Frank Miller

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Well, well, well. It seems that my rooted detestation of Frank Miller and all his criminal works roused more interest among my friends than any other controversial idea I could toss at them. Well, then, on your own heads be it.

I have a deep, personal, vindictive hatred for Frank Miller, the cartoonist who originated 300

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I read your entry on the matter. It was good, and I do not think you need worry about your understanding of history. The funny thing is that Miller did not need to lie to bring in the same story elements, for they can be found in Herodotus' tale - only, they are at the level of whole cities, rather than inside the cities as such. The Oracle of Delphi, which did play an aggressively pro-Persian role, would have been better cast as a representative of a lotos-eating, treacherous intellectual class, than the Ephors. And a lot of Greeks, including Thebes and Argos, did go over to the Persians; in the case of Thebes and Argos, this was clearly due to their hope that the Persians would help them settle matters with their enemies, Athens and Sparta, respectively, and thus was even more despicable. The point however is that Miller's subversive view of society demands to be applied to individual societies, and therefore the man had to alter the whole nature of Spartan society to fit his own concerns in.

You and I seem to have caught independently all the fraudulent items such as the misrepresentation of the Ephors, and the fact that a complete stranger should so agree with my views makes me feel happier about trusting them. The reference to feeling soiled, in particular, felt very familiar. I think I would like to friend you, if you wish.