You do realize, I know, that you are trying to explain negative numbers and fractions to someone who knows positive integer arithmetic and that's all. He's not going to understand anything else.

Does this guy remind you of the priests during the Inquisition? The Earth is the center of the Universe.

"Follow the money", he says, and yet he is blind, completely blind to the money.

Give it up. A nice guy who hasn't learned a thing since he was 10, who is not a leader, not a thinker but as blind a follower of authority as that 10 year old. He's not capable of independent thought, or admitting he's wrong. "There is none so blind as he who will not see", and TB is unable to apply his values, his standards, his expectations, even to himself. Cannot do it, cannot see the contradictions. Can you expect him to see anything else?

There must have been some fierce authoritarian model in his house. Paralyzed, unable to think, a nice guy, an abused guy, and the consummate follower of the type despots find necessary.

By picking and choosing only safe data he believes more and more deeply what he is told to. Terrified to step outside his comfort zone and question some of his own demonstrably flawed beliefs, he is trapped, not having the flexibility to admit he might be wrong. Because his entire idea of himself is wrapped up in the notion he is right, or he's worthless.

Too bad,as he is a nice guy. I'd buy him a beer, or two. I'd be delighted to have him as a neighbor, especially if I could watch him struggle with raccoons. I'd import raccoons. But he does not have the ability to analyze data for himself. He thinks he does, but he always winds up where he's told to wind up. He's a follower.

I believe he is also desperately ignoring, avoiding, denying and warping the data that he is what he says he hates. The epitomy of it, and I'm not going to go into that in any depth. The Emperor may be better off thinking he's clothed. It's no skin off my nose.