like 85 wpm, 97% accuracy? i was a good student and accepted learning how to touch type when they tried to make us learn in middle school. i'm glad they made us, it's probably one of my more useful general skills.
Llituro
joined 5 years ago
well it's 2026 so there is no anarchist society, which doesn't exactly help your point here i think. but if there was and they rejected learning math, then they become guys with sticks and swords to defend themselves from fascism in a manner that means they could be defeated by napoleon. who, to spell this out, was known for his use of artillery, which requires math to determine the ballistics of. i'm making a hyperbolic point to question the theoretical seriousness of a person who is asking whether math is valuable... i'm not even claiming the argument being made by this essay is bad, i'm suggesting that perhaps the author's interlocutors should have just been ignored for questioning whether math is a necessary knowledge.
mathematical knowledge is not in conflict with anarchist society.
what serious person would deny the utility and importance of mathematics other than fucking pol pot? that's fundamentally unserious, without math your anarchist society gets clapped by a white army led by napoleon.
you'll probably work through that plateau some day. it's great to learn how to do, cool to see someone making the effort to go back and pick that up.