I’m not even going to entertain this prophetic Orwellian fever-dream and just say this; if there is a culture in which four of something is five of something, that culture is retarded and probably can’t build or store anything properly. And any ancient ruins you might find where this might have been the case are ruins for a reason. They were probably eradicated by a group of intellectual Chads that can count. A truly game-changing tactically edge.
It’s flummoxing how some people can find to time to try and undermine elementary arithmetic in a time where people are struggling to make ends meet. I sometimes joke that philosophers were only philosophers because they didn’t have anything else to worry about. It truly is a sign of decadence when you find yourself arguing that the use of math is a force of race-specific ill-will.
But I propose a challenge to these schizos: Land a rocket with your “woke” math. Build a computer. Hell, build a shelf. I’ll time you. Show us the power and correctness of your enlightened ways, if you can.
But there are people who believe it, simply because they were told. It’s episodes like this one that were the genesis of the NPC meme. People who are without internalized logic, consciences, or self-programing to keep out the influence of rouge coders.
But if someone is so compelled to believe something so provably and observably untrue, what can you really do? Even slow children know that the presence of four things does not magically usher in a fifth thing. And why did they have to go after the number four? I like the number four. It’s my favorite number. What’s so great about five? “Oh, look at me, I’m the number five. I’m eight classifications of prime and represent change and variety in numerology. Fucking sweaty, try-hard integer…
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