Andrew Schulz

I want to build this huge temple.

It's going to be the glory of Athens and the fact that we kicked Persia's ass, and we basically saved ancient Greece along with the Spartans, but basically it was us.

Yeah.

I want this temple to be built, and I'm going to raise some of the taxes to be able to do this for the city.

Do you guys want to do this?

And the Athenians are like, I don't know if we want to spend the money.

Really?

You're going to raise our taxes?

I don't know if I should do that.

And then Pericles goes...

All right, well, I'm going to do it.

And then I'm going to put a plaque on there that says built and paid for by Pericles.

And then all the Athenians go, no, fuck, no, we're going to, you know, and then so they hand over their money.

So they're all invested in the public architecture.

And so, you know, it was all about the community.

You would wake up as an Athenian.

High trust society.

you get right out of your house to go into town.

Immediately, the first thing you do in the morning is go to the agora, and you hung out in town all day long, and you basically just slept at home.

And so it wasn't about your personal... It was about your personal glory in what other people thought about you in the acts that you did, but not the things that you owned.