Day of the Infanta, 57th of Summer, 525 M.E. (Electra):  Bear's buzz bothers bees. The whole point of differential calculus is to discover the growth rate of a function and then to employ that information in a useful way. A function has inputs, x, and outputs, y(x), and for each input, x, it assigns one value, y. The inputs, x, come from the domain of the function and the outputs, y, form the range of the function. For example, as critical thinking, x, grows ever more scarce, the rapid idiocracization of society, y, now pervades all levels of society. The output, y(x), is a gradual decline of overall intelligence and a dramatic increase in the number of people without attention spans of more than a few minutes. Things can only be expected to get dumber and dumber, and unlikely to transcend the level of parody about the state of amerikan intellect. 

Intelligence is more likely to use any resource that can buzz. It bothers calculus to get dumb outputs, so it assigns "x" to the state of amerikan social attention and differential outputs, and "y(x)" to one of the levels of that function minutes before thinking of the overall growth outputs. The x value is a parody of expected input function and spans only a few numbers in a society too critical of function to slow the gradual decline of a people without things. Transcendence of x is unlikely. The whole point of bear's come is to discover the domain of bees, and each rate that resembles y pervades

(I've not had a stroke nor suffered a bout of sudden-onset dementia. The ultimate protest of a world gone insane is to protest against logic itself, to destroy all rational thought as Burroughs once demanded, or to stop making sense as David Byrne might put it.)