From: Randall Randall (randall@randallsquared.com)
Date: Fri Jun 07 2002 - 18:18:43 MDT
Mike Lorrey wrote:
> Well, Spike, you know that math is just one more entirely ficticious
> construct of patriarchal imperialist capitalist western civilization
> that is used entirely for purposes of repressing women, minorities,
> indigenous people, and the 'artistic' with boxes, labels, rules, and
> limits. Even getting down to binary code, it demonstrates male
> phallocratic repression of women, since 1, an obvious phallic symbol,
> denotes a *higher* value than zero, an obvious womb symbol. Thus all
> base two math and digital computation is sexist and a threat to
> feminism. Your evil Python (aha, one more phallic symbol, a snake)
> program always finds 'good' numbers, which you consider less perfect
> than primes, which are only factored by themselves and one. Since one is
> the symbol of the phallocracy, primes are a tool of phallocratic
> control, and your value system judges other non-primes by their lack of
> roundedness by more feminine numbers. The fact that math has no label,
> or respect, for numbers factored by the womb symbol (zero), demonstrates
> further that math is phallocratic.
>
> By my personal, politically correct interpretation of the Extropian
> Principles, both GIMPS and your own math work are un-extropian......
>
> Mike
> (who saved up his April 1st points)
>
LOL. :))
-- Randall Randall <randall@randallsquared.com> Crypto key: randall.freedomspace.net/crypto.text ...what a strange, strange freedom: only free to choose my chains... -- Johnny Clegg
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