lyx2no writes:
Wouldn't that be multiplication?
I am sure that when any 'Great Leap Forward' occurs, it can easily subtract a few steps in the 'Great March' to the 'Cultural Revolution' some of our evangelicals intend to proscribe.
Yeah, heard that one before.
Estimates vary between 20-60 million outright murdered along with a similar number staved to death due to the rejection of modern science and even mathematics in favor of a pick-and-choose authoritarian ideology.
Except for the Aeronautics and Petroleum industries, which were somehow hypocritically exempt from any denial of fact, due to their 'importance' to the state.
May seem OT in the narrow sense, but to deny math in service to the 'great leader,' would there not be an obvious similarity?
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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
Salman Rushdie
This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces. It is not God who kills the children. Not fate that butchers them or destiny that feeds them to the dogs. It’s us. Only us. - the character Rorschach in Watchmen