working with abstract ideas alienates you from other human beings as you see the world in a fundamentally different way than most people and you lose touch with social norms that are the building-blocks of social connection. it doesn’t help that folks also tend to treat you like your a freak/monster because they are terrified of things they don’t understand, like logic or pure mathematics.
even talking about how logic works at a 101 level is going to make people resent you in a casual social situation. and advanced logic is basically witchcraft for anyone not working that field, of which there are maybe a hundred or two globally.
out of 9/10 people I meet, who find out my academic background, become immediately hostile to me about it. as my graduate degree is some sort of personal attack on them. shit’s wild. and the 1 person who isn’t offended by it is mostly because they just don’t care and don’t judge people for stuff like that. maybe 1/50 I meet thinks it’s a positive or interesting thing and 1/2 of those folks will get offended because I don’t know about some obscure thing they think is related to my field, but isn’t at all.
In my studying days in Australia, i lived with a guy who studied abstract mathematics. I found that shit fascinating, but could only understand 1/3 of it. Dude was interesting as fuck!
There’s a great book called “the advent of the algorithm” and it has a chapter about how frequently logicians lose their minds and take their lives.
working with abstract ideas alienates you from other human beings as you see the world in a fundamentally different way than most people and you lose touch with social norms that are the building-blocks of social connection. it doesn’t help that folks also tend to treat you like your a freak/monster because they are terrified of things they don’t understand, like logic or pure mathematics.
even talking about how logic works at a 101 level is going to make people resent you in a casual social situation. and advanced logic is basically witchcraft for anyone not working that field, of which there are maybe a hundred or two globally.
out of 9/10 people I meet, who find out my academic background, become immediately hostile to me about it. as my graduate degree is some sort of personal attack on them. shit’s wild. and the 1 person who isn’t offended by it is mostly because they just don’t care and don’t judge people for stuff like that. maybe 1/50 I meet thinks it’s a positive or interesting thing and 1/2 of those folks will get offended because I don’t know about some obscure thing they think is related to my field, but isn’t at all.
In my studying days in Australia, i lived with a guy who studied abstract mathematics. I found that shit fascinating, but could only understand 1/3 of it. Dude was interesting as fuck!