Explain how this sentence in paragraph 9 contributes to the explanation of democracy in the text: “For the Greeks, the state was not seen as an interfering entity that sought to limit one’s freedom but as an apparatus through which the individual could fully express his membership of the community.”

Two gymnastics teams are intense rivals. the first team has started recruiting new gymnasts from different cities and even foreign countries in an effort to build a stronger team. after learning this, the second team begins its own recruitment campaign to find even better gymnasts. over a period of months, each team recruits dozens of players, each time trying to find a better recruit than its rival's most recent addition. which idea from the cold war is most similar to this scenario?