I work in retail.

I guarantee this is 100% necessary and also 100% ineffective.

I grew up watching PBS; Sesame Street, Mr Rogers, The Electric Company, 321 Contact, that weird math show with the math cops… all the classroom ASSET programming, and so on.

I lived in the back-country so I assumed that everyone was into learning and being smart and understanding how everything works. I thought “Wow the future will be grand if so many people my age grew up watching the same things and wanting to learn and read and think!”

Holy shit, the last several decades have been a massive disappointment. Like, crippling depression disappointment.

Yeah, I feel you. I’m in the same boat.

Hey, you remember that PBS math show—can’t remember the name—where a group of kids go into cyberspace and have to do math shit to defeat this villain dude? Best fucking shit ever. Lol.

Was it one of the sketches in Square One TV?

I don’t think Square One was what the user above was referencing, but it’s certainly what I was thinking of! I loved that show, I grew up in isolation basically so I had no idea it was considered weird to love math and had an affinity for math, but Square One and other PBS shows were the closest thing I had to any kind of formal education.