what makes him so evil to me is that where we start with math or geometry and a notion of perfection that we can extrapolate from- one which humans are uniquely imbued to appreciate and emulate, he eschewed the quantiative and replaced it with viral language and sold it as somehow more material and "real."

with any contemplation at all the existence of geometry has necessary and unavoidable moral implications about the possible intent of a creator, and it's hard to see how constructing an ideology to dissolve our connection to those is anything other than a poison. he was a snake and a pimp who wrote a mind virus for self-enslavement as a way to separate people from the dignity of their own humanity. math is not a mystery cult either, and I sympathize with professionals seeing their discipline used for bullshit, but gatekeeping its tools only to initiates should be treated as suspect. to scholars i would say either enlighten people or fuck off, as they aren't equipped for what real gatekeeper personalities are capable of, and a little knowledge won't save you from them.