To: koan who wrote (239414 ) 12/6/2013 4:04:04 AM From: Maurice Winn Read Replies (5) | Respond to You are kidding right? <Nelson Mandela lived a great life; and was the greatest man of the last century, IMO. > How about Gorby, who ended totalitarian rule of the USSR with Glasnost and Perestroika, and Yeltsin who faced down the old guard who tried to conduct a coup? How about Deng Xiaoping who ended Mao's Maelstrom, let 1000 flowers bloom and turned black and white cats loose to catch mice, lifting a billion people out of poverty and famine? Just today I opened to admire an amazing set of drill bits and the like Made in China which I bought several years ago for an absurdly cheap price as a work of art. I did not care whether they were made of melamine or even plasticine, but in fact they turned out to be made of metallurgy that actually works as well as looking amazing. Americans whine about "they're taking our jobs". The jobs do not belong to Americans. I am very pleased to be able to send my money to people who desperately need the employment and who produce such amazing things. Now Made in China are producing hundreds of millions of mobile Cyberspace devices, creating the most amazing development ever since twisted pair DNA was invented a billion years ago. How about Irwin Jacobs who invented CDMA and Qualcomm to enable the mobile Cyberspace realm? How about Albert Einstein who invented the Theory of Relativity which led to a whole new world? Or Winston Churchill who led the war against and defeat of Adolf and co? What about Vint Cerf? If you like independence from Great Britain and rejection of low-melanin rule, how about good old Mohandas Gandhi? Or Robert Mugabe? Or Idi Amin. [Just kidding there]. You should not forget Queen Victoria either, who set the 20th century up for enormous success for billions of people by spreading the joys of VirtuousVictorianValues such as private property, common law, habeas corpus, democratic ideology, capitalism and such wonders of prosperity and who lived to see the dawn of the 20th century. She was perhaps the greatest "man". Queen Elizabeth II is also a very great man, albeit a woman, but you should not hold that against her. Women should be considered men too. Don't forget Maggie Thatcher who defeated the Argentinian barbarians [there were more Argentinians than there were low-melanin South Africans] and the coal miners, ending the British Disease. She was a great man too.
