Re: OT ; Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 08:30:57 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On 2 Oct 2024 07:29:49 GMT, rbowman wrote:
 

On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 03:05:23 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
 

On 2 Oct 2024 02:40:51 GMT, rbowman wrote:
 

Democracy leads to mediocrity and worse.

 
“Democracy is the worst system in the world ... apart from all the
others.”
    -- Winston Churchill

 
You have this implicit assumption in the USA that you are the best in
the world at everything. Therefore if you do something badly, nobody
else can be doing it better.
 
Quite a few other countries manage to do democracy better than you; why
not learn from them?

You keep making the assumption that I consider democracy a good thing.