Steve Sailer takes an interesting approach to assessing the drugs that are the pillars of gross materialism in postmodern times.

The only sports I take seriously are combat sports, and as long as there are weight classes, steroids don’t really have as much effect on combat as people think. The reader might be interested to know that there were forms of ancient steroid banging which are discussed in my upcoming All-Power-Fighting book. In the ancient world two different declining cultures, the Hellenic and Roman, both saw obsessions with impractically and grossly outsized combat athletes that were essentially pet warriors, who had food and pampering requirements which disqualified them from meaningful military service. Such men, often the companions of tyrants, where known as parasites in ancient Hellas.

Crude over specialization is a hallmark of societies in decline, and in The Republican Drug, Steve Sailer sets his finger on the pulse of another of the Western World’s dead end obsessions.

Check it out at the link below.