Ep. 128: A Government of Laws
Young Heretics
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Solon's Athens Reset
Solon is one of the seven great sages of Greece. He works out a compromise to adjudicate this crisis without establishing a tyranny and maintaining ancestral ideas about how Athens is to be run. It's kind of a great reset, although not of the extreme variety that we're used to thinking about when we talk about the great race. The impossibility of actually coming to somebody and saying, give me your land so the government can give it to somebody else... This is why reparations is such a damaging and dangerous idea,.
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