An idea from Laws

Start the world over after a great flood: a few shepherds on hilltops without tools, gold, or any memory of cities. They were poorer in arts and richer in character, because a community with neither poverty nor riches has the noblest principles. Cities, laws, and vice grew back together.

From Laws by Plato

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