Its funny, I was always very good at math in school, that's why I chose not to study it in college! It seemed boring to me, I thought all I'd be doing was pushing numbers around...now I have a humanities degree (I don't regret it one bit, I learned to appreciate everything beautiful in the world), but I'm finding myself growing interested in math once again, but in things like set theory and topology and the areas that seem to ask the questions of representation that I felt what was called "STEM" never addressed.
It's not my fault! The author is right, things like mathematics, physic (in fact, nearly the whole of STEM, at this point) have been subordinated to the logic of "rationality," instead of desire for beauty in the world and human creative effort. What kind of "rationality" builds a society of busybodies and functionaries of power whose only job is to perpetuate a norm of bureaucratic dictatorship, who only have the "freedom" to watch youtube and scroll tiktok after work. True freedom only comes with power, with willful, creative action. And we aren't building a society that teaches kids to do anything but suppress their most natural tendencies for fear of total social alienation.
It's not my fault! The author is right, things like mathematics, physic (in fact, nearly the whole of STEM, at this point) have been subordinated to the logic of "rationality," instead of desire for beauty in the world and human creative effort. What kind of "rationality" builds a society of busybodies and functionaries of power whose only job is to perpetuate a norm of bureaucratic dictatorship, who only have the "freedom" to watch youtube and scroll tiktok after work. True freedom only comes with power, with willful, creative action. And we aren't building a society that teaches kids to do anything but suppress their most natural tendencies for fear of total social alienation.