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Who said there were no conflicts of interest in math studies? Any human pursuit will be tainted by human ego, which is chiefly concerned with its own exaltation. Math perhaps less so than science. In either case the collective focus is on the cutting edge, because that's the most current chapter of the story. This wouldn't be so if people were as content to solve problems that already had a solution as they are problems that have yet to be solved, but not even an automoton would waste its time on that. Besides, the previous chapters have already been signed, and the ego loves putting its name on stuff.

I do not know if I can explain, yet you. "Math perhaps less so than science." I'm sorry that others have not taken up the torch. I do not argue out of dissatisfaction in some philosophical ditch. I grieve from satisfactions viewpoint, on the high ground. So many apologies, that we argue as we do. I in the past year began to believe in a better time. How many millennia past by the few who could demonstrate the spherical nature of earth. What are a few centuries of awareness in hindsight of the a-parallelogramic essence of absolute geometries.

I don't know about all that. I just meant that science, being more experimental in nature, has a greater tendency to entrench the ego. Maths, being more postulative, require less heavy lifting, and as such are proven and disproven with a blackboard and a few grams of calcified diatoms. Ego is invested in theorems but mathematicians are a supremely logical lot, and are more apt to humbly defer to subsequent supersession. Science not so much. The frontier of many branches of the sciences are a veritable battle royale of ardent disagreement and recrimination. One might even say the emphasis gets placed on discrediting the opposition more than underscoring ones own position. But when you already have a conclusion that satisfies you, there's no need to keep proving it. You always find things in the last place you look because once you find them, you stop looking.

that's the song and dance of our world. i'm up against every day. i really do not mean to be rude. consider there is another way. our logical thinkers are more like poets hoping for treats. we treat them more when they make mistakes. they botch the errands and recopy them for other poets. that way our poets proliferate. and we get to feel good that we struggle to care for them. because in this downward spiral the treats are falsely given for bad wordings of abstract ideas. then the kicker is how amused we can be secretly by the joke that the math language is wrong to the core. and by we i mean ironically the un-academic world that are not having to be those funny logical poets. everyone is always overjoyed by not being the train wreck of reasoning themselves.

In 9th grade biology our teacher asked the class for their solutions to the problem of global hunger. My hand reflexively shot up.
Teacher: Yes?
Me: Kill a quarter of the planet and feed it to the remaining three quarters.
Teacher: Um...well...who decides who has to die?
Me: There are four people in my family and I volunteer to go for them. The rest is up to you.
Class: You're weird
Me: If you don't want the answer, don't ask the question.
I set the curve on the final just to f**k with those visionless morons.

The point is, there are three doors: status quo, radical change, or complete annihilation. I am lazy, apathetic and feel like I have no skin in the game, so I choose door number 1 with the caveat that I have reframed the problem as a feature.

Until we start force-feeding large doses of psilocybin to everyone in authority, the best alternative is... https://www.youtube.com/watch
Anything worth doing, is worth doing right.
*whistles nonchalantly and walks away*

Wake up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18-LLjQBGko I laughed when there was no specific video linked to.