What if this was your math teacher?

[bluerose]

so many faux-geniuses in history have been either masochists or sadists, compare dat to physicists and actual inventors who are comparatively kind and socially neutral at worst.

philosophy is a meme discipline, almost as useless as art and language, attracts the exact type of midwit who knows he's too stupid/selfish to be of proper use to society, but still wants to "mog" (exhibitionist trait of introverted narcissists).