How do you build a good society? There are a lot of answers to this, communism, liberalism, royalty. It essentially comes down to the quality of the founding philosophy of the state. Lycurgus who was the founder of Sparta (the ideal behind communism) made Sparta as a political architecture. So these ideas was renewed with Marx, and still holds claim today. The community, is an ideal that goes all the way back to the mass of Sparta.

So, there are other ideals, like Athens that is the ideal of Democracy. The constitution of Athens is a bit more a collection of the ideas of Plato and Aristotle, and has grown over the years. Yet there is a core of democratic vibe in it from the start.

So how do we know what to do?

The ideal that is BEHIND all these ideas are the basics of how to make a republic, that is developed in the Middle East in cities as Ur, Uruk and Eridu (Eden).

Here religion, banking, law and the democratic system with upper house, lower house and president (king) was invented. The bible is as much a political manifesto as a religious manifesto. Just think about the story of Lot and his escape from Sodom and Gomorrah. Sodom and Gomorrah are city states and the point is, that if the city state (republic) turns evil, it will fall.

There are local differences and traditions, but the basic ideas of a republic were developed in mainly Iraq. Babylon being one of those cities we still remember.

There is Egypt as well, that has influenced religion. So it is not so simple, yet the basic building blocks of the republic were made in ancient Mesopotamia.

So if we wish to make a good society we need to understand these ideas. We are LIVING in a republic, have a system of law, have banks and religion. Yet our UNDERSTANDING of the principles have deteriorated over the millennia.

A RENAISSANCE is the rebirth of these ideas of the ancients, and that is what we are in the middle of, and that is what will save the world.

G-d bless the UNDERSTANDING the principles of the ancients, and may we find joy.