Hegel had the idea that each era contained useful things we should salvage. Noting the inherent dangers and problems of some of these things, what is a modern equivalent of:

• Contrade: Highly engaged local communities with visible symbology

  Contrade of Siena

• Small cities with large maritime empires

  Italy’s maritime republics as marketplace startups

• The School of Athens; Epicurus’s commune; monasteries

  We should have more secular monasteries and communes

• Saints; rich people commissioning religious art

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  Should there be more propaganda?

• Chivalry / honour codes

• Guilds, as opposed to unions

• Chinese imperial bureaucracy examinations

• Worship of goddess Fortuna

  Meritocracy is overrated and luck is underrated

• Worship of lares (household/location-based gods)

• Homestead Act of 1860

• Rich Athenians funding triremes

• Victory Gardens

• Idle rich / gentleman scientists

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• Cursus honorum

Differing conceptions of legacy and role of rich. Westminster Abbey: imperial service. Ancient Rome: public services as propaganda.

Vatican: emphasises how much artistic effort has been placed into service of transmitting religious values. Does something similar need to happen for climate change?