Historia est magistra vitae. When have the masses ever been correct?

I dunno, most of the time? They some years ago decided learning Latin was pointless, for example.

Masses have always been wrong, to the extent that they burned and killed innocent people for one reason or another. No mass has ever produced any innovation; if you look at revolutionary inventions, they were always invented by single persons or very small, focused group of individuals, but never masses. Masses don't have the competence to judge whether that which they are following is good or bad, correct or incorrect. That's why they follow. It's what defines them as a mass.

As for Latin, this is the same reasoning of "learning" Linux and not understanding UNIX and mis-configuring the OS or breaking Linux backwards compatibility. Or re-inventing the wheel all the time while basic functionality like booting or the fiberchannel stack still do not work correctly after 20+ years.

Thank you masses for all the sleepless nights I was forced to endure because Linux has the same problems Solaris solved decades ago. Because masses know what's good and what's bad.