Our Species: Which Leaders? (A Visual Essay)
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posted by Jay Dratler, Jr., Ph.D., J.D. @ 12/30/2014 07:47:00 AM
About Me
- Name: Jay Dratler, Jr., Ph.D., J.D.
- Location: Santa Fe NM and Berkeley CA, United States
This blog reflects a quarter century of study and forty years of careers in science/engineering (7 years), law practice (8 years) and law teaching (25 years). A short bio and legal publication list appear here. As I get older, I find myself thinking more like an engineer and less like a lawyer or law professor. Our “advocacy” professions—law, politics, public relations and advertising—train people to take a predetermined position and support it against all opposition. That’s not the best way to make things work—which is what engineers do. What gets me up in the morning is figuring out how things work and how to make them work better, whether they be vehicles, energy systems, governments or nations. This post and this one explain my respect for math and why you’ll find lots of tables and a few graphs and equations on this blog. If you like that way of thinking, this blog is for you.
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2 Comments:
At Friday, January 2, 2015 at 8:13:00 PM EST,
Anonymous said…
Which leader(s)are best for us to follow? Clearly it is Jesus at the top and center of your arrangement of photos. The next best three are displayed in your blog directly under him, in my opinion. Jesus's thoughts are why I vote him #1. However, the facts of his life being a son of a god are hard/impossible for me to believe as are many other magical things taught about him like resurrecting after being killed. Yet I like his teaching of love and respect for all, turning the other check, etc......But how many, especially the Christian "true believers" actually practice what Jesus taught? Not many at all. The Amish are very far from perfect, especially in some of their business practices, but at least they sometime practice what they preach, which I can respect.
Happy New Year! Rod H.
At Friday, January 2, 2015 at 11:12:00 PM EST,
Jay Dratler, Jr., Ph.D., J.D. said…
Dear Rod,
I couldn't agree with you more. If we all thought of Jesus as the best political leader in human history, rather than as some sort of supernatural phenomenon that no mortal can emulate, we might have a world much more like Paradise on this our Earth.
My detailed views on that point can be read here.
Happy 2015!
Jay
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