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To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (135374)	9/2/2017 1:22:27 PM
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I am likely in the top 1% of the least political people I know and I remember my college friends being terribly frustrated with me about it when I was 21. I could not quite understand why. Nevertheless, I now have to look these things because of the markets .... even if I can't even pretend to understand why things happen the way they do. DJT seems to me to be a lot like ethylene, which is a gas that is given off as a fruit ripens. We are watching the fruit ripen on an international stage. Some of us succumb to this gas and some don't. I simply have no idea why. :) I fully expect this fruit to rot before our eyes. The world is becoming increasingly complex in many, many ways. Two readily apparent causes are the rapid advances in science and (galloping) technology. Lawyers and career politicians and soldiers don't spend their lives with these subjects ..... yet .... most presidents are from these fields. Why? Lawyers are not concerned with right and wrong. They worry about the law. Career politicians care only about their own survival, promising anything to get there. Soldiers eat and exercise to become strong, promising to defend us, if attacked. And when no attack comes, they try to manufacture one, or go on the offensive, to justify all that consumption and time on exercise. Scientists are good at certain things. Business-men and MBAs are good at certain things. It is rare that these things overlap.Thus, crucial problems cannot be solved. We have been programmed to look for the wrong skills in leaders. I hope that will change, but I am not optimistic. Why? Because technology has the capacity to distract and prevent learning. Everywhere I look I seem to encounter this in action.