TP or NP? Trial ballon goes up

[Mark Kohut]

Ready for your next dose of ROFL at a plister? Feel an itch to flame and ridicule for downright
absurd arguments drawn from my Back to AtD reading, that great, great book? 
 Me, you talkin' about me? yes, I am.....
 
As I've too-oft stated, I believe a great book comments on life ultimately and life opens out in unexpected ways because
of such books, the great authors. The associations are almost endlessly rich---see Shakespeare if Pynchon isn't him. But
 
Below is a NYTimes essay that is getting lots of comment, lots of controversy, lots of the equivalent of flaming by many,many.
Seems that, in itself, it is a good plist conversation topic.
 
BUT, my outlier comic--to most of you, I bet---annotative skit is to say: as a kind of oblique, real world footnote --an associative annotation so to speak--
 this guy's argument against algebra and higher level math (except if interested or needed for other intellectual pursuits) but FOR
 the necessity of MORE math (statistics, measurement--see Wa Po on Quantitative movement---)
 dovetails with my reading of a theme in AtD: mathematics beyond what we use in everyday living abstracts us from this pendant world and is useless
 (or in P's vision, too often leads to actual harm). Abstraction
from the physical, tangible world is BAD SHIT in AtD, I say, and is a through-theme from the personal life of the characters to the abstract notions
that lead to war. 
 
C'mon lurkers and those who haven't yet commented on my 'radical' [read Stupid?] notions. Let me have it. 
 
 
In the Opinion Pages Andrew Hacker writes, “Making mathematics mandatory prevents us from discovering and developing young talent.
Is Algebra Necessary? 
http://www.nytimes.com/
As American students wrestle with algebra, geometry and calculus often losing that contest the requirement of higher mathematics comes into question.” — —