He said graduates must make a choice between democracy or mediocracy, success orfailure … prompt action or procrastination.
mediocracy in American English
(ˌmidiˈɑkrəsi)
nounWord forms: plural-cies
government or rule by a mediocre person or group
Word origin
[b. mediocre and -cracy]-cracy is a combining form occurring in loanwords from Greek (aristocracy; democracy). On this model, -cracy is used, with the meaning “rule,” “government,” “governing body,” to form abstractnouns from stems of other origin. Other words that use the affix -cracy include: bureaucracy, mobocracy