Andrew Schulz

How am I going to do that?

I can't afford to go do that.

And then they're just, you know, this person is trapped in the working world.

They can't participate in the high aristocratic society of politics.

Yeah, but I don't know.

I just don't know that we'll ever come to a... You know, Athens...

Athens was a very unique place with so much personality and this like explosion of revolutionary thought and people that were really, really, you know, they would they would.

Could you imagine our society today paying people to go watch professional football games?

Because that's what happened in Athens.

They would pay you to go watch sports.

Why?

Because they wanted you to be a part of the community.

The city itself knew that, okay, so this is one of the different, we are very Roman in the way that we like to decorate our homes and fill our homes with a lot of gorgeous decor, this, that, and the other.

We want the inside of our house to be pretty.

We want the outside of our house to be pretty.

But Athenians and most Greeks were not that way.

You would go through a Greek town and you may not be impressed by any of the homes that are there because the Athenians didn't really care about that.

It was more so about when you went downtown.

What do the public spaces look like?

Yeah, you went to the Agora.