Anyone going to mention Tim Berners-Lee?
Poignant indeed. But how about Lizzie the 1st, and her loyal servants, giving the Yanks the wonderful gift of the Queen’s English per chance?
Or Frank Whittle for inventing the jet engine so that they may have planes that can be crashed into tall buildings?
And who invented the gun, so that there could be oppression and school yard shootings? Well, slightly ambiguous but it was definitely a European invention… As was the motorcar, though of course America refined it to the point of ridiculous, ostentatious greed and consumerism, where they serve no purpose other than to act as a 3 ton high ride penis extension that costs a small fortune to drive even a mile!
Democracy, one of many things America is so proud of when you hear them all shout “the home of the brave and the land of the free”… Invented by some Greeks around 1500 years ago you say? Well I never!
There’s not a great many things the Yanks should rightly be able to be proud of to be fair, short of the world of music (where they have invented a lot of styles), yet as a country they can very typically be so very short sighted and lacking in awareness of the rest of the world… Hmmm 😕