Two Takeaways from This Film

Two Takeaways from This Film · Adding Up Scenarios

First, watch it, it is wonderful. As far as it goes.

8-Year-Old BEATS GENIUS In Math Contest | Dhar Mann Studios
Dhar Mann Studios | 2 Oct. 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTzKXh51dlE

Dad of a girl as employee:

I got to [1:44] go pick up my uh daughter from school I [1:46] promise to take her out for some ice [1:48] cream you know I just don't want to be [1:49] late

Employer

so you're kidding right? The car [1:52] isn't done Mr Crowley's coming by to [1:55] pick it up today and I promised him 10% [1:58] off if it wasn't finished on time

...

Dad of other girl as dad

who is that you were talking to [4:56] sweetheart

Other girl

just some nle in my class [4:59]

Dad of other girl as dad

your class that girl looks like she's 8 [5:01] years old

Other girl

she is 8 years old she skipped [5:05] a few grades she's supposed to be really [5:06] smart

Takeway. One.

It is not the best way to provide for children to have a job where you can be asked to do overtime, where you are not doing your own timeschedual.

I may certainly need to get a habit of finishing the internet in order to meet someone I love. It will not happen by people observing my willingness to finish the internet to get back to a place where I'm never exactly on time to meet anyone, but either too early and basically harrassed or too late and find sometimes something good, sometimes something superfluous ... and sometimes something missing or out of order or degraded.

Takeaway. Two.

Class is not the best learning environment for everyone.

I'm very happy that I have spoken up against school compulsion. My mother doing so may have saved my life. She has payed a great price for doing that. I have also payed a great price for doing it.

It need not be a special talent, it could be simply an average talented but special dedication to a subject someone else finds boring.

Or it could be being in the wrong spot ideologically. As Swedes I meet online keep showing me about Sweden. I don't classify scientific consensus as identic to scientific observations and experiments. I also don't classify God, angels, devils and human souls as Russell's teapot. Therefore, to those guys, I have an impenetrable epistemic armour, I am indulging in radical scepticism, as if I didn't trust my own and basically everyone else's senses, which I do, I just don't trust everyone else's judgement about logic (I take exception to naturalistic methodology) or in the case of such countrymen or mental health professionals, I don't even trust their honesty.

In her case, being in class worked out in the end. But it was only due to a very unusual luck, both in talent and in occasion, that her bully actually said sorry and became her friend. It is not a proof that lumping people with persons who are likely to bully them is a good idea. And obviously, the right to take someone out of class shouldn't start just when they have been bullied, it should be with the parents and usable for any reason without even explaining.

Yes, some parents are abusive. That's not a reason to disenfranchise basically all parents, or all but a small group of privileged ones.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
St. John Chrysostom
27.I.2025

Sancti Joannis Chrysostomi, Episcopi Constantinopolitani, Confessoris et Ecclesiae Doctoris, caelestis Oratorum sacrorum Patroni; qui decimo octavo Kalendas Octobris obdormivit in Domino. Ejus sacrum corpus, sub Theodosio juniore, hac die Constantinopolim, inde postea Romam translatum fuit, et in Basilica Principis Apostolorum conditum.