Modern society hates that you admire your ancestors or the heroes of Greece. It hates it because strong and manly role models shaped Western thought and formed the foundation of a civilization based on human moral values, religion, and ethics. It hates it because studying the Greeks and the Romans can inspire your sons to become better men and think outside the box.
They don’t want that.
"Always strive for excellence and to surpass the others, and do not bring shame upon the race of your fathers." (Homer, Iliad 6.208–209).
They don't want you to strive for excellence. They want you to be a slave to their unlimited freedoms and sexual desires. They can't think of anything more than that. Their whole lives are surrounded by a pseudo-intellectual rhetoric that is murdering your spirit and your mind.
They hate the archetype of the heroic ancestor and the idea that you were born with a purpose that was always to surpass him through great deeds.
Until the dark days of today arrived, days baptized as "progress," in which every day we slide from bad to worse.
Some want to create a degenerate world, sunk in atheism, anarchy, and spiritual collapse, far removed from values, virtues, and morality. They call this "progress," yet it is nothing but total subjugation, heads bowed, without any desire to resist.
Today’s so-called progress, therefore, consists precisely in moving as far as possible away from the ancient command of fighting in your life to surpass your ancestors and having virtues.
When excellence is no longer the measure, when the only sacred thing left is the right to mediocrity and the comfort of never being judged by the shadow of greater men, then man ceases to be a bridge toward something higher and becomes merely a consumer of fleeting pleasures in a rootless present.
Modern society hates Sparta because it represents the ultimate rejection of their egalitarian, comfort-obsessed worldview. A militaristic, high trust, rigid society of discipline, hierarchy, and collective duty.
Some so-called "academics" portray Sparta as a "proto-fascist" and inherently gay/pederastic society. This depiction is completely unscientific, relies on zero primary sources, and is promoted solely by ideologically driven leftist academics for their own political agenda and nothing more. I strongly advise you to stay away from these academics for the sake of your own spiritual health.
We should admire Sparta because it forged men of unbreakable discipline, loyalty, and self-sacrifice in a harsh world. Its example reminds us that true strength comes from order, courage, and the willingness to put the common good and ancestral duty above personal pleasure. In an age of softness and decay, the Spartan archetype is exactly the heroic model our sons need.
We should also admire Spartan women because they stood firmly by the side of their men and fulfilled the roles entrusted to them with excellence, wisdom, and deep love for their people. They were true Spartan women, women of values, strength, honor, and unbreakable spirit. This tradition remains strong in our blood and has been preserved for millennia. Spartan women of modern times (Maniots), especially during Greece’s last three major wars (the Revolution of 1821, the Balkan Wars, and World War II), fought the invaders and barbarians with unimaginable strength and courage, like Amazons, the world has never seen again. These women, particularly the fierce Maniot women, should be the role models for our daughters today. They gave birth to real men, raised warriors for the nation, and embodied the eternal duty to become better and surpass their ancestors.
As a Spartan I'm here to teach you the values, the philosophy and the agoge of my ancestors.
A civilization that teaches its young to surpass their ancestors in virtue, courage, wisdom, and beauty ascends. One that teaches them to despise or ignore their ancestors has already begun its long descent into oblivion.