Fetish-Numbers - Marie de Sade, Dr. Olaf Hoffmann (the beach read TXT) 📗

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Epigraph

Numbers are beautiful, wild beasts in the fetishists' safari park.

Dr. Olaf Hoffmann

Abstraction is a necessity; fetishism an entertaining luxury of a saturated society.

Marie de Sade

Fetishes – salt in everyday soup or salted everyday life soup‽

Balthasar Maria Bernhard Freiherr von Brockelstedt

Cryptography in everyday life protects our freedom. Those who give up freedom for a little more short-term security will lose both in the long run.

Bertine-Isolde Freifrau von Brockelstedt

The study of mathematics, by suppressing sensitivity and imagination, sometimes leads to a terrible outbreak of passions.

Félix Dupanloup

Mathematics is not detrimental to the love drive.

Paul Julius Möbius

I sometimes have an abysmal hatred of numbers. It is the most absurd falsification of 'reality' that man has ever achieved, and yet it is the basis of 'our whole contemporary world'.

Christian Morgenstern

There are things that seem incredible to most people who have not studied mathematics.

Archimedes

There is no royal road to mathematics.

Euklid

Mathematics alone satisfies the mind by its extraordinary certainty.

Johannes Kepler

In nothing is the lack of mathematical education more evident than in an overly precise calculation.

Carl Friedrich Gauß

It is mathematics that protects us from the delusion of the senses and teaches us the difference between appearance and truth.

Leonhard Euler

We understand the number, but never the counted.

Blaise Pascal

The so-called mathematicians of profession, relying on the immaturity of the rest of humanity, have acquired a credit of profundity that bears much resemblance to that of holiness that theologians have for themselves.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Foreword

About the Content

When numbers become a fetish, when numbers can only be pushed, when additional stimuli are needed by means of a fetish – where does the journey go‽
If everything revolves around deciphering the secrets of others, where is the attention to one's own secrets?

Is the riddle of one's own existence, eroticism, sexuality a number for cryptology, for psychoanalysis, interpretation, exhaustion up to a hypothetical reason of one's own psyche?
But why so brooding?
After the prefix, it goes right into the middle of Fetish-Numbers!

Everything is meaning, interpretation. There is no direct, unfiltered perception, no unencrypted information.
Does truth as such exist at all?
Are fuzziness, uncertainty, estimation, mistake all we can learn about ourselves and the world?
Pure information can also not exist. Information is always conditioned by the context, which assigns meaning to patterns in noise.

Every new discovery, every new insight opens the view to a much larger number of puzzles, misunderstandings. Only those who are stupid, ignorant, can confidently assume that they have completely understood the world, that they know exactly where to go, that they can control everything. The more intelligent ones modestly acknowledge that there will always be puzzles they will not crack, some might, but which in turn will turn out to be the key to doors to further puzzles.
But because of that giving up frustrated?
Without secrets, riddles no research, pleasure.
What else can we do but straying forward?

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