Godel Memes

Ever notice how math majors get weirdly defensive when you question their discipline? The person asks why Math wears a mask, and Math immediately tries to unmask Philosophy instead. Classic deflection technique! The truth is, mathematics has been having an existential crisis since Gödel's incompleteness theorems showed it can't prove its own consistency. Nothing says "I'm insecure about my foundational axioms" quite like trying to expose someone else's. And they say numbers don't lie!

The existential crisis that hits when you learn about Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem is too real! Suddenly you're questioning if your breakfast cereal choice is an unprovable statement within its axiomatic system. For the uninitiated, Gödel basically shattered mathematics by proving that in any consistent formal system complex enough to express basic arithmetic, there will always exist true statements that cannot be proven within that system. So now you're pointing at literally everything going "Wait... is THAT unprovable too??" Mathematical completeness? Sorry, it's just not on the menu. Your formal system is either inconsistent or incomplete. Pick your existential nightmare!