Arithmetic

Arithmetic is a form of government-approved torture inflicted on the young and impressionable. In the United States, young children are forced to attend correctional facilities known as schools and have their tiny minds filled up with junk and anti-Ku Klux Klan propaganda. One of the most effective ways of torturing these poor wretches is using arithmetic.

Unwitting children are tied to desks and forced to calculate pointless sums and products for days, months, sometimes centuries at a time without toilet breaks or allowance to scream with frustration. They are forced to use the sacred quadrilogy of kabbalistic demonic symbols: + (plus), - (minus), * (multiplication) and / (amputation). Refusing to use these symbols result in the child being immersed in liquid nitrogen until crispy.

Children exposed to this horrendous form of torture turn into government-controlled puppets of the elite. The few lucky ones whose brains are not reduced to tapioca are sent to the Auschwitz of the school system, Special Ed classes.