A friend of mine said this, and it’s very astute (because she is): “Goddamn so much politics is old people’s housing prices.”

At least 70% of the recent and invidious primary imbroglio can be explained by that one statement.

I’m the same way as this person about math.

In every other field, concepts slide naturally into my mind and I can manipulate them however they want, like fitting a bunch of Lego blocks together to make limitless possibilities.

But math is like constructing a Lego set on a picnic table outside in the middle of a thunderstorm. I grope blindly in the pouring rain for the first piece, and finally put it in place, but by the time I’ve found the second piece and move to connect it to the first piece, the first piece has blown away and is nowhere to be found, and the instructions are sopping wet, and the picnic table has just been carried away by a tornado.

Part of it just that I’m not interested in it and it is taught really poorly almost everywhere. But the other factor (heh) is that I’m just absolutely terrible at it, and it feels to me just like the above extended metaphor of the storm and the picnic table.

Thousands of hours spent on math and I’ve learned really nothing. Not for lack of trying. It just is all meaningless garbage to me at the non-conceptual level; a language I will never understand and is so far from anything I can understand that I can’t even discern it as a language.

I wrote about the Miller Analogies Test yesterday. I score 4 1/2 standard deviations above average on that test, which is somewhere around a 160+ IQ. (Has in most people an extremely high correlation to other IQ tests, which is why all high-intelligence societies accept it.)

Yet you give me a math-ish IQ test, and will reliably I score at a 70 IQ or so. People start trying to fit me with helmets so I don’t accidentally hurt myself after I take one of those.

I do wish I had the math ability that others of similar intelligence seem to possess, but it’s like imagining being able to fly under my own power. It’s just not going to happen. I’ve studied so much math in so many different ways for so many years that I know this is true. Sometimes the universe just is how it is.

People say things are “impossible” because in their limited vision they cannot foresee them occurring.

But consider that many people can’t foresee what they will have for dinner tomorrow.

The only real long-term advantage (for lack of a better word) of Clinton winning is that it will cause a faster collapse — which is now inevitable due to global climate change — than would’ve occurred with a Sanders win.

Of course Trump winning the general will accelerate that even more.

It’s Machiavellian and some would say evil, but I believe the only way to avoid possible extinction-level events for humanity is to have a collapse sooner rather than later.

So Clinton or Trump will give us that with much greater celerity.

Yay.