The Mesopotamians determined that the pattern for legitimate sovereignty—the spirit of voluntary confrontation; the animating principle that should be put in the highest place—was all attentive eye and magic voice. Marduk had eyes encircling his head, and he spoke magic words that transformed, for example, night into day. That is a brilliant and inspiring vision: the idea that the god of all gods is attention and the creative, transformative word—the Word that transforms monstrous possibility and darkness into the world itself. Who should lead? Not the person capable of wielding the most force. Not the person who is the richest. Not the person who can manipulate most effectively, in some Machiavellian manner. Instead, the attentive, visionary communicator: the person who watches most closely and tells the best story, past, present, and future. What should lead? Not power. Not the immature, hedonistic whim of the moment, even in its strongest, sexual manifestations. Something higher. Something that genuinely brings together, establishes, names, places, and renews; something upward striving and reflective of the truth.