Mathnificent Word of the Week

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I’m embracing the quantitative as opposed to the qualitative.

The common definition of the word difference gives off some downright negative vibes. As in, “A point or way that people or things are not the same,” says Oxford Languages Dictionary.

Yeah, sure, but also…

There seems to be a whole lot of {waving my fingers in the air} comparing going on here, right? Which is an inherently subjective thing to do.

Instead of only considering how things and places and, yes, people, are “not the same” – what if we looked at the difference of those things and places and, yes, people, as a quantitative amount: of information, or experiences, or even an interest in – or a curiosity about – something, someplace, someone(s) that we do not have.

The difference is what remains after you have done the subtraction: [what you do know] minus [what you don’t know]

I live in the United States of America and there is a tyrannical onslaught – of restricting access to information, of dismantling any ability to discover information, of dictating opinions that are then presented as factual information – all because differences are solely looked at as “not the same.”

These are the actions of an incurious, insipid, and incredibly insecure group of men whose names are Don, Elon, and I’m sure there’s at least one Jo(h)n in there. Please use your voice and amplify the rights of everyone in this country to be able to access the information we want, when we want it.

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