Was thinking about a "It's Only Humanist"-style essay that considers "300" as the dark side of Greek New Media, "expressing young filmmakers' yearning for manly virtue and ancient rituals of violence in the disconnected, affectless time of the Internet. In contrast to the aestheticized holistic beauty favored by the Athenians, The Spartans' CGI abs and pecs conjure a warrior cult of the body: free-floating signifiers of sweaty buffness but also a grotesque cyborg 'skinning' of the human form."