A BETTER ME
A BETTER WORLD

During climb of four-peaks NE of Phoenix -1983

Earlier Accomplishments

Taught Alegbra Class for 2 years while in high school.
Captain of three football teams in high school and college...one of them was undefeated, untied, and unscored upon - 1948-1950.
Pitched a no-hit game in high school and struck out all batters.
Foreman at the Ironton Roundhouse in summer of 1945, at age 15, with 3 adults under me.
Was all-conference in basketball and football at Brainerd Junior College in 1950.
Was Illinois state large-bore rifle champion while serving in the US Marine Corps at Great Lakes in 1953.

George Butorac
BIOGRAPHY

George J Butorac is a young 93 year old with a keen interest in the world around us. An honors graduate from the University of Minnesota, he has experienced a diverse and rewarding swath of Americana from the Cuyuna Iron Range to Western mining camps to competitive athletics to the US Marine Corps to Aerospace management and then to retired author.

This bio will focus on aspects of his career that influenced writing "A Better Me, A Better World".

Exposure to military servomechanisms in his first job out of college was the major learning experience of his life, and especially, in writing this book. George worked for six aerospace companies in multi-technologies and in multi-positions. His progression was from field engineer to marketing to program management to general management. One of his programs, managed with servo techniques, won the first Malcolm Baldrige National Quality award in 1988. He also taught technology courses at Henderson House, an offshoot of Northeastern University, and at three of his employer facilities.

George mentored the Maricopa County Hospital System for one year in attempts to improve the overall quality of their many functions. He initiated and was a judge at the first hospital Participative Management Program (PMP). Winning the Malcolm Baldrige award led to this assignment.

With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, George was chosen to diversify his Division’s defense business. He selected medical electronics and automation as the two areas that best fit our capabilities. This was his first real exposure to the life sciences and found it fascinating; especially, how all body functions are servo controlled.

George received a patent for an electronic nurse that was successfully tested on 13 Maricopa County patients.

He organized a tremendous cranioelectrostimulation (CES) industrial team. It included Mayo Research, Barrow Neurological, Russian doctors, and Arizona State University. Unfortunately, all medical efforts were ruled off the track by corporate headquarters to avoid disgruntled patient risk.

With the Corporate red flag, George decided to retire early in 1992 rather than return to aerospace. He had a desire to use his accumulated experience for peaceful purposes.

His next two years were spent writing “Discover the Joys of Living” while reading extensively about evolution, human physiology, psychology, sociology, philosophy, therapy, and history. George discovered answers to many perplexing questions relative to how we function, think, heal, learn, and enjoy.

ABMABW was then an attempt to ingest some of his newly discovered material into revamping an earlier unpublished book written in 1975, “Ones Are Always More Than Zeroes”. The earlier book attempted to develop a rigorous approach to social morality by adapting a proven methodology from science.

He spent four years studying history, philosophy, and economics while writing ABMABW. It is divided into three major parts and a concluding commentary.

The first part, HUMANITY LAID BARE, explains how an innate physiological morality rigorously controls the evolution of life since its inception. It clearly demonstrates that Survival, Evolution - Being the Best We Can Be, and Enjoyment are life’s purposes. Other topics covered include: how evolution and human physiology influence human behavior and how our body’s Voluntary and Survival Servos rigorously function. These data explain why we act the way we do.

The second part, A BETTER ME, explains how we can use our humanity findings coupled with our intellect to overcome our evolutionary weaknesses and become better persons.

Many of the principles discussed in the third part, A BETTER WORLD, are based on the way our bodies manage their societies of living cells.

This book was first published by Vantage Press (a vanity publisher) in 1999. Criticizing religion dismayed family and close friends. Lacking a name author and advertising know-how led to giving up on the sales effort in 2000. ABMABW had some rave reviews from the few who read it.

The continuing national political, economical, and moral disasters since then prompted George to republish ABMABW because he believes its views, if heeded, can significantly improve our personal and national lives.

Why I Wrote
A BETTER ME
A BETTER WORLD

I spent five years writing “A Better Me A Better World” 24 years ago. It challenged our reliance upon using conflicting mythology to guide personal and societal wellbeing. Unfortunately, it didn’t sell. My criticism of religion appalled my Catholic family and close friends. In addition I was an unknown author who was tackling controversial subjects. However, two things happened that rekindled my interest in promoting the book: my survival and the multiple national debacles since then. At 93, I am the sole survivor of my Catholic siblings and most of my close Catholic friends have passed away. Nationally, our misguided War on Terror, Wall Street bailout, capitalistic exploitation, Congressional fiscal corruption, and Trumpian egomania jeopardize our future. ABMABW provides guidance to avert such behavior.

My book expands Spinoza’s comment that moral theory must be based upon man’s nature, not man’s nature upon moral theory. Rigorous evidence proves that man’s nature is based upon evolutionary history and that physiological morality and servo controls guided all of evolution. So why don’t we use those proven techniques to now guide personal and societal behavior…that’s what my book does!!!!

A key concept in the book involves the identification of the PHYSIOLOGICAL MORALITY inherent in all life. It clearly points to SURVIVAL, EVOLUTION – being the best we can be, and ENJOYMENT, in that hierarchical order as the innate purposes of human life.

If you look at life through an evolutionary lens and take advantage of the emerging discoveries in the life sciences, you gain a better understanding of human existence and of the many problems besetting us. Why people and societies behave as they do? Why reptilian Republican and mammalian Democrats are both lacking? Why supposedly moral religions foment continuous strife in their drive for domination? Why bureaucracies are driven to expand?

Then if you apply the servo/hierarchical techniques honed by our bodies over eons and capitalize on how our bodies manage and control resources, you will discover more effective ways of attacking real-world problems. Why we must have common objectives and how to set priorities? Why we must utilize timely feedback to monitor progress? How to organize and manage our defense forces and how to objectively treat all citizens?

Key Question: Why has it taken so long to draw these rigorous guidelines from centuries of supporting data? Such thinking was forbidden and even risked life itself until modern times.

What makes ABMABW unique?

Defines a rational purpose of life based on the rigorous physiological morality that guides evolution and personal behavior…a more compelling approach than all of the conflicting myths concocted to date.

Exploits servo and hierarchical techniques, developed and used by all evolved life forms to guide personal, societal, and economic behavior.

Establishes a behavioral morality that strives to overcome our reptilian and mammalian shortcomings.

Calls for an overhaul of the American government structure to resolve current inanities and facilitate further progress.

Describes an economic system that rewards contribution and punishes exploiters.

Generates constructive critiques of many contemporary controversies.

In summary – I tried to use the outpouring of current discoveries in the life sciences to replace ancient ignorance in many aspects of life

What led to ABMABW?

Even as a child, I questioned anything that didn’t make sense to me; e.g., stupidity of the Great Depression…a hungry boy observing mountains of food being willingly destroyed… triggered me to naively question and challenge the adult world…1930s.

Catholic altar boy…5 years

Was totally confused in high school and college by exposure to the many flaws in religion…1950s

US Marine Corps Training…1951-1954

Graduated with honors from the University of Minnesota…1956

Learned about servos in a technical sense on my first job after college…1956

Domestic chaos during Viet Nam War…Neighbor kids and my sons were baffled…my counseling to them turned into my first book, “Ones Are Always More Than Zeros”…1970s. It attempted to insert rigor into the balloon policies dominating our lives

Had a 36-year career in the aerospace industry…worked in multi-technologies in multi-positions…progressed from field engineer to marketing to program management to general management.

My final three year managerial foray into medical electronics enlarged my knowledge envelope…was surprised that servos are more ubiquitous in human bodies than in technology…1990s

Read extensively about evolution, the brain, and philosophy…published, “Discover the Joys of Living” in 1994

Read over 900 books on Ecology, Economics, Health, History, Living, Morality, Physiology, Politics, and Technology, over 5 years and then wrote “A Better Me A Better World” in 1999. It became increasingly evident that evolution and human physiology provided convincing answers to many questions puzzling mankind.

Concluding Comment: To demonstrate the practicality of the servo control methodology presented in the book, it guided me in winning the first American Malcolm Baldrige National Quality award in 1988.

More Books by George

Larger Than Life

Larger Than Life is an anecdotal history of the 20 most interesting characters I met in life. They are as inspirational and/or enjoyable as the fictional heroes of my childhood. For the most part, they didn’t have great material wealth but they all had something more valuable, an indomitable spirit and a joy for living that are priceless. These men came from the Cuyuna Iron Range of Minnesota, the U.S. Marine Corps, Western mining camps, Texas, the Aerospace industry, and a Scottsdale bar. They represent a diversity spanning from a Texas multimillionaire to an immigrant miner. The tale of a humble parish priest who became a chaplain and world traveler provides a benediction for the book.

I anticipate that some of the anecdotes presented will be absorbed into your subconciousness as they have been in mine. You will then be equipped to look at life through a new lens, one that enables you to extract more of the humor that lies latently in everyday events.

This book was by far the easiest to write and publish by my Iron Duke publishing company in 2000. The only problem was getting photos of the persons involved. It is hard to imagine, in this time frame, the scarcity of photos from 50 to 100 years ago. This book sold the most, over 500 copies, mostly to Iron Rangers when I left the book business in 2001.

Much to my surprise in 2019, when I became interested in reviving ABMABW due to the turmoil racking our nation, I was totally surprised by the pages of Amazon ads promoting LTL and my original ABMABW. Without my knowledge or permission. LTL was being sold in seven or eight foreign countries by another publisher with me as the author. An unauthorized hard copy version of LTL was also being sold. (Similar unauthorized alterations were made to ABMABW without as much success.)

Joys of Living

This was an attempt to explain the essentials of, and the actions leading joy in living. I spent two years reading extensively about evolution, human physiology, sociology, psychology, sociology, philosophy, therapy, and history. I discovered answers to many perplexing questions relative to how we function, think, heal, learn, and enjoy. When human physiology and behavior as well as social behavior are viewed in the light of evolutionary history, it becomes a clairvoyant experience. I gained an understanding of the physiological morality (carrots and sticks) used by the body to maintain homeostasis and achieve natural joy.

Seven critical behaviors were distilled from this study effort that impact personal happiness. They are:

Broaden your worldview in a positive objective manner.
Take responsibility for your life.
Maintain your physical, mental, emotional, and moral health.
Be the best you can realistically be.
Give and receive love and friendship.
Transcend your primitive heritage.
Morally enjoy life.

Sorry to say, this book was a comedy of self-publication errors with much wasted effort and frustration. A few readers raved about it and bought copies for each of their children. But the knowledge gained was more than worth the effort.

A BETTER ME A BETTER WORLD

George Butorac BIOGRAPHY

Why I Wrote A BETTER MEA BETTER WORLD