 One more topic, which is two plus two equals five. You didn't know this. Well, a mathematician, his name is Karim Kar. He is a statistics PhD student. I guess student, statistics PhD student at Harvard, not in any BS school. Data science, science communication, and naughty jokes, MSc, math, MA stats. So very, very, very well-educated guy in math and statistics posted this on Twitter. I don't know who needs to hear this, but if someone says two plus two equals five, the correct response is, what are your definitions and axioms? Not a rant about the decline of Western civilization. Let me read that to you again. I don't know who needs to hear this, but if someone says two plus two equals five, the correct response is, what are your definitions and axioms? Not a rant about the decline of Western civilization. What do you even do with that? The answer to this is, no, no, no. If you have a set of definitions and axioms that make any kind of sense, where two plus two equals five, it is on you to present them. Two plus two equals four. Two, the number two, represents one two, like in fingers, two fingers. Another two is four fingers. That is the literal meaning of two plus two equals five. Now, it's true that you, in certain mathematical contexts, two plus two might equal something else, like in group theory. Two groups plus two groups might equal one group if they all merge together. But that's not two plus two equals five. That's two groups plus two groups equals one group in group theory. There are other forms of math. There are other contexts of math. There are other axioms and definitions in which two plus two might not equal four, but it's not two plus two. The burden is on you who make the claim that two plus two equals five to present the reasons for it. And to the extent that you are teaching children that two plus two equals five, then that is the decline of Western civilization. That is exactly the decline of Western civilization. I mean, there are two vectors. You can say two vectors of particular magnitude and other two vectors equal something other than four. But again, that is a completely different context. And it's your responsibility as an educator as a mathematician, as an explainer to set the context. But two plus two equals four is always and everywhere the right answer unless you have set a different context. And again, if you're teaching children who are trying to grasp the very basics of arithmetic and the source of where numbers come from, numbers don't come from axioms and definitions. They come from observation of things and our need to count. Now, yes, there's axioms there as well. But if you create that kind of cognitive confusion among kids where every time somebody says the number two, they have to ask, oh, but what axioms are you using and what definitions? Then you are responsible for the death, then decline of Western civilization because you're teaching kids not to think. You're teaching things anti-thinking. You're teaching kids conceptual confusion. So if you are writing a PhD, come up with a way in which one could understand two plus two is equaling something other than four. Great, good for you. I don't know what it's used for. Maybe there is a use for it. But the burden is always on you to explain why you are doing it, what the purpose is, and that you're not using two plus two in the sense of the way arithmetic uses them, the way reality, the way we learn it from reality. This is new math, this is complete rationalism detached from reality, and this is indeed representative of the decline of Western civilization. Anyway, this has created a flurry of hundreds, maybe thousands of tweets back and forth. The tweet itself has 735 likes. And 135 retweets and a lot of comments, a lot of comments, both pro and anti. So this is woke culture, I guess. When math is not math, the arithmetic reality isn't reality anymore. What we need today, what I call the new intellectual would be any man or woman who is willing to think. Meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason, by the intellect, not by feelings, wishes, whims, or mystic revelations. Any man or woman who values his life and who does not want to give in to today's cult of the stare, cynicism, and impotence and does not intend to give up the world to the dark ages and to the role of the collectivist. Broads. All right, before we go on, reminder, please like the show, we've got 163 live listeners right now, 30 likes, that should be at least 100. I figure at least 100 of you actually like the show. 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