It is worth considering that mathematics itself may be distasteful to most because it does not hold the kind of connection to reality it purports to. There is something in the raw machinery of mathematics that fits perfectly into the very bureaucracy you despise. Mathematics is much more about the gross simplification of nature than some universally true aspect our reality.

https://seanamcclure.medium.com/the-problem-with-mathematical-abstraction-04f91d4610a0