Right. The obvious thing to me when I read it as a teen was that “this society is incapable of producing more O’Briens. It is clearly fucked long term, but may last a few more decades.”
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Seriously, read A Mathematician's Lament by Paul Lockhart (everyone should read it at some point)
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It doesn't actually mention so-called "woke" of race/class/gender directly but it is about those things, in the broader sense of asking "Why are we pretending math has nothing to do with the human beings who do math, that it's not a 'subjective' activity just like art and music"
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