Blog Name Change

Apparently I'm one of the first people in the world to be an open millennial regressivist.  I searched for that phrase on google and nothing popped up.  So I changed the title of my blog to include the phrase.  To be clear, I don't want to regress on the progress that has been made in the area of civil rights, or in certain surgical procedures, but on most things I think I'd rather take a regressive approach.  I don't have a smart phone because I don't want to be playing on it all of the time.  And I don't like that there's a new version of windows every year.  I think operating systems should change maybe once every ten years, to give people time to get used to the changes.


That's my main issue with progressivism.  It goes too darn fast and doesn't give people time to adapt to changes that have been made.  In my MIS class we discussed "systems thinking" which is the idea that changing one system affects another.  But when you progress too fast, you do not give time for those affected by the progress to adapt to the changes that have been made and all heck breaks loose.  That's why customer service in any business is so lousy today.  Because of constant updates in computer systems and constant updates in everything else.


I mentioned earlier about surgical procedures and their advancement, and how I am not against that.  But I am against the overprescription of opioids that society has progressed to over the years.  You do need opioids for major pain, but you don't need them for small stuff.  When I got a small surgical incision that was only about an inch they gave me some form of codeine, and I wasn't even hurting that much.  I took the stuff as prescribed for two days and thought I didn't need it anymore.  As soon as I stopped even after that short amount of time I became very sick and felt like I had the flu.


Most of the math I independently study is over 100 years old.  I'm on vector calculus now and am attempting to progress to differential geometry.  Not doing so well, but I'm having a good time.  I study that old stuff because I feel to progress I need to understand what has happened so far before pressing on into new territory.  I don't think we need to design our societal progress in such a way that we put all of our efforts on a few people at the top and try to push them further and further up so that no one else can possibly follow.  I think we need to progress in a way that we build bridges so people who aren't at the top can still get there.  It's slower progression, but it's more enjoyable because you can bring more friends with you while you're going up.


I hope that I can build a bridge to differential geometry so that normal people can work to understand it and it's not confined to only a few people at the top.  I'm not doing so well, but it's my regressive ambition.