The Royal Society. Great meeting of artists and scientists. Proven non measurable outcomes.
Malcolm‘s right.
There needs to be a greater emphasis on maths in schools. If you can’t do the basics you shouldn’t be at uni. Our OECD ranking is falling and unless we take drastic measures, we’re stuffed. Maths makes for a better society. It’s quite simple, you get fifty billion and divvy it up to the laziest core group of rent seeking parasites in history, (the Australian Business Council) and watch ‘the trickle down effect’ deliver, (.05 % benefit) to the rest of the community. That’s how maths works!
Malcolm knows a lot about maths, he was a merchant banker fer chrissakes. He knows how to flog public assets. And when he really really promises to leave medicare alone, you know, (dumb, pliant, coerced, supine electorate) that his promise holds true. As true as that made by the previous PM Tony Abbott when he cracked lyrical about ‘no cuts to education and health care’. Julia did the same when she said there’d never ever be a carbon tax.
Aristotle at the school of Athens, (Raphael). Artists Mathematicians, Philosophers and Writers. USELESS! Not one successful real estate manager or football club president among them.
Historically there has been a strong correlation between artistic and scientific exuberance. Good thing we don’t study history, because we don’t want a flourishing, exuberant society. A bludgeoned one will do fine. That’s what maths 101 teaches. That words are just superfluous. The real truth lies in the numbers. On that you can bet. Numbers don’t lie, it’s just how you interpret them. And for interpretation, you require some understanding of nuance, language, philosophy, history and humanity. Worthless junk. The last thing we need in our society is people versed in the art of interpreting ‘Us’, and where we’re heading. It could question the “trickle down effect”
Einstein. Studied mathematical theory and posessed imagination. Useless!! Couldn’t win a chook raffle.
Still maths is very useful it makes for a better education system. For things that can’t be measured; thought, imagination, colour, humanity, they’re best ignored. And by ignoring all those ancillaries, we can arrive at a beautiful set of numbers. New education is a boon for the future, no need for arts faculties. Arts and humanities have already been devalued as part of the ATAR ranking, (quite rightly) which leaves maths as the sole determinant, for those who want to do valuable things at university like Masters of Business Administration and Commerce . And they make money because to all intents and purposes they’re paid for by the taxpayer, from the bounty of flogging public assets to merchant bankers.
By getting rid of all those annoying humanities the general funding stream is clarified according to proven business principles. Establish certainty by closing theater and de-funding artists. Ignore writers, close publications and stifle any art movement that is labelled “contemporary”. Encourage people to think and follow the certainty of numbers.
Maurice Newman. Fmr Chair of stock exchange, businessman, and climate science denier. Wealthier by far and more influential than Aristotle, Einstein and Raphael. Proof perfect that maths and business go hand in hand.
Banks like numbers, it’s what keeps them in the black. When banks go bust it’s because someone forgot to look at the numbers. But banks aren’t too worried cos they know, (bit like negative gearing), that the innumerate, the inarticulate and the lesser educated will be picking up the tab. That’s where numeracy leads us, to the inevitable conclusion that there’s only one number that counts, and that incidentally is the number One.
Malcolm Turnbull could count, and did read a book, (occasionally). Leading the future of Australian numeracy and inventiveness.
It’s happening right across the globe, as a nice adjunct to globalism. The state is dismembered bit by bit by good merchant bankers who reliably, and courteously deliver it to the the one percent that counts. And in Malcolm’s case both he and Rupert are extremely glad. And that’s how democracy works.