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That enlightened activity is funded in part because it frequently yields massive military benefits/massive benefits to other exploitive technologies. There's currently no way to control that as a Mathematician, unless you're publishing in an anti establishment mathematical activism cell, in which case you public mathematical career is halted.

Very few mathematians want to become political enemies of the state, but that's what they're forced to do if they want to rise to this principle. I guarantee that takes away some of the enlightened wonder, and adds back a lot of genuine terror and boring bullshit.