Iguana posted:Stormborn posted:The gist of your post was burnham did something demonstrating genius...naught!
Nah, you don't get to define MY arguments! Saying someone was ahead of their time in some respects can hardly be considered "demonstrating genius". He wasn't a bloody dunce either, else the clowns you hung around with would have had him out on his arse in short order.
Unfortunately his mind was outdone by his megalomania, the need to hang on to power at all costs. Some black Guyanese will argue he had reasons, but that is another topic entirely that I will not engage in.
Burnham had some good intentions - FCH to preserve foreign currency, Hydropower, etc. The flaw in each was not the intent, it was the execution, the existing corruption (from colonial days), the bigotry that gave rise to preference of some and the rejection of others.
His faults are there for all to see, decades later you spend hundreds of words on it, while NO ONE here is suggesting otherwise.
You are a perfect example of ONE of the things wrong with Guyana. The inability to analyze, understand and accept the good of a person/party and use it. Jagan, a flawed leader, had some good things he did. Learn from everyone, use the good, learn from the bad and ensure no repeat.
You do none of the above. You go for the low hanging fruit of demonizing everyone and everything, barking loudly about the irrelevant, while you have nothing constructive to contribute on your own. Easy to do, but sooooo immature and lacking, no matter how well you dress it up.
Of course I did not define your argument. You dont get to re configure them as you see fit after having made them.
What good are good intentions? Transposing William Blake on truth; good intentions with stupidly poor results beats all the bad you can invent.
I did guyana no wrong but lots right. I educated three of her citizens and kept at least hald a dozen more from cascading into insolvency and being in the streed all on account of injustices piled on the heads of its people by awful politicians.
I am an engineer and a programmer and performed superbly at these endeavors for 40 years so insisting analysis and problem solving is absent is your fertile imagination and need to say something relevant. You waste your damn time also with what I contribute vs what you do. I own two homes there and keep a viable farm with cattle and sheep; what the hell do you do that makes you so relevant and mature?