Book excerpt: Our togetherness has become porous. It needs renewal. On the basis of Old Europe, one of the first advanced cultures of humankind, the authors demonstrate how the communities of Old Europe prospered in peace for 3000 years and how everyone benefited from an orientation towards the common good. Mirrored into the present, this can enrich the necessary political, economic and social discourse and provide orientation. “This book indicates very concisely and succinctly a real ‘reversal of the way of thinking’, it not only shows it, it carries it out! This should assure highest attention!” Harald Seubert, philosopher and historian of ideas “It is possible! The future belongs to a democratic coexistence. We can – and we must find ways to a functioning community." Bascha Mika, editor in chief of the Frankfurter Rundschau (2014 – 2020)