From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Aug 26 2002 - 12:54:43 MDT
--- spike66 <spike66@attbi.com> wrote:>
> Wars are treated thus: conflicts between nations and
> peoples have occurred repeatedly, they were all profoundly
> destructive, meaningless for the most part, tragic as hell.
> Nearly without exception, the side prevailed that was more
> technically, scientifically and industrially advanced. Good
> chance it will always be so.
>
> Nowthen, the real important persons in history are those
> who created scientific and technological advances, which
> caused humans to move forward. Let us emphasize
> Henry Ford, not Henry the 8th. Alexander Graham Bell,
> not Alexander the Great. George Washington Carver,
> not George Washington.
What about character, and aren't political systems to be considered
technologies? Washington's greatness wasn't from his battlefield
experience, since his win loss record was decidedly on the losing side.
His greatness came from his refusal of dynastic ambition, in refusing
to serve more than two terms. As far as I know, the only other leader
of a nation to commit such a selfless act up to that point in all of
human history was Cincinnatus.
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