John Brodix Merryman Jr.
2 min readJun 30, 2024

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Antoun,

Thanks.

The little voices in the back of the head are more organized and focused than the world the front of the head has to contend with.

My game plan is trying to plant a few basic ideas, primarily the two I enunciated in that last essay;

Why "God," the "all-knowing absolute," is a category error. Ideals are not absolutes.

That our mental framing devices, from religions to math, cannot be all-encompassing, because they need to be finite, to be usefully descriptive. Signals in the noise. Maps of the territory, not basis of the territory.

Reality primarily bubbles up, it only trickles down from prior structures.

Then that the whole of culture is built on the flow of time, as the accumulation of knowledge is grounded in it, while the evident physical reality is that action and the resulting change turns future to past.

Sort of like everything from Apllo's Chariot to crystalline spheres to explain the cosmos flowing east to west, before realizing the earth turns west to east. Think "spacetime" as the current version of crystalline spheres.

Our flat world on this round planet, where the grains of sand at the center of the pearls of culture are Bronze Age tribes. Primarily one, based on its primordial written rules.

While this might seem grandiose, it comes from my personal experience of growing up on a farm and being tuned to nature, before being thrown into school and indoctrinated into the prevailing culture.

Given that culture is rapidly imploding, as all the various factions fight over their disintegrating portions, there is only so far into the fray it is worth it to me, to stray, as beating my head on a brick wall would be more productive and fun.

So I'm circling the various rabbit holes, trying to get some attention from those still on the sidelines, as there will be a time in the not too distant future, Armageddon or not, where the whole house of cards does collapse and then many people will be looking for reasons, not just sticking their fingers in their ears and shouting ever louder.

Then, hopefully, I get the attention of someone with connections to a loudspeaker.

Until then, just going around popping circuit breakers on the feedback loops seems the best option.

Having been blocked on Substack and given my efforts to get unblocked were fruitless, it seems more than just some rogue moderator, so it's probably not wise to get too much attention from those who will kill to control.

Given the necrotic political situations in Europe and the US, the collapsing support for Ukraine and Israel spiraling ever further into its echo chamber, it seem the next 6 months to year will see some serious dominos knocked over.

Think of it as a game, where you don't kick the goal, until you get down to the end of the field.

Cheers.

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John Brodix Merryman Jr.
John Brodix Merryman Jr.

Written by John Brodix Merryman Jr.

Having an affair with life. It's complicated.

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