Why I stopped loving and learned to worry about democracy (reply to Oberon)

[Skybird]

I felt it was adequate to put this in a separate thread. The original one that led to this long reply to Oberon, can be found here:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=204938

For convenience and greater eye friendliness I have set it up as a pdf here, can be read online or printed:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/yzs2hhb6wd1u44x/Oberon.pdf



This went a bit out of hand, and I got carried away and got surprised myself by how long it became, and in the end I further found that it was not what I really wanted to achieve. Well, reality can be a bitch. It still is not what I wanted it to be, and I feel it is terribly incomplete. But I had to stop at some time. Typos should be at an acceptable level, but for the lack of structure I think I still must apologize.

I certainly cannot and do not demand anyone to read all this, so everybody being potentially interested, see this as an invitation only. That includes you, Oberon. I would not be angry or offended if you decide that this would consume too much of your time.