Full name: For Rulers: Priming Political Leaders for Saving Humanity from Itself

Author: Yehezkel Dror Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Politics Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9781633915527 1633915522

This book goes where few authors dare, offering a big-picture view of the fateful choices facing the human species. It urges humankind to adopt unconventional survival and thriving strategies, including elevating the future of humanity above state interests, limiting the production and spread of dangerous knowledge and tools, and strengthening humanity's collective deliberative capacity. The author confronts the evolutionary trap of science and technology ensnaring unprepared humankind by providing it with awesome future-shaping power, which contemporary values and institutions are unable to handle. The book warns that tribal and nationalist values, the inability to learn from history, and mediocre leadership will catastrophically endanger the future of human life, making radical, even painful, innovations essential. According to the book, the prevailing form of politics is obsolete. Instead, he argues urgently for a new type of political leader - "Homo Sapiens Governors" - willing and able to fulfill the daunting mission to save humanity from itself. IN ESSENCE: THIS IS A UNIQUE "MIRROR FOR RULERS" FITTING THE CHALLENGES OF SAVING HUMANITY FROM ITSELF IN AN EPOCH OF PHASE JUMPING