>>11921020>You grow older and you gradually master the art of thinking less and less.Oh god, we're all gonna become Atiyah without the prior success, aren't we? But really, genuine sincerity feels like such a foreign concept nowadays. You know anons, I've been hanging on /mg/ on and off for about six or so years, and it feels strange to see everything get all warped and distorted. I mean /sci/ was still garbage back then, but at least /mg/ was fine. Yukari poster would make latex heavy posts of ribbon categories, gorilla poster would keep getting himself banned, that one ens anon who hung around, pretty relaxing. But things are changing so fast, not even just /mg/, but everywhere.
Honestly, I'm terrified. Currently in grad school and it's clear the academic job situation is getting worse every year. Hell, enough people in the US are pissed off enough that academic jobs may actually get hit hard, which would be a double whammy. Couple that with north korea starting up their nuclear program and refusing talks and things aren't looking too hot.
Mathematics seems to be more and more about following hot trends, and while none of them seem bad or uninteresting, it's a damn shame just how much mathematics has been lost to time just because it's not fashionable. This is gonna sound autistic, but it feels like history is being lost to time, all of those potentially interesting and fruitful ideas, the various conjectures and heuristics people have developed, all just, left to the wayside. I sometimes feel like I'm abandoning the mathematical heritage by being complicit in leaving the subjects behind. Hell, will all the things I work on now be abandoned in the same way? Is there anything to do, to fix this? Or maybe, to get used to this feeling?
