John Brodix Merryman Jr.
2 min readJul 7, 2020

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As you say, the breakdown is starting and while those at the forefront of the various disciplines, from economics to physics, that have resorted to patchwork over serious review, are not going to shift, so the organic effect will be like old skin/bark/shell peeling away as it becomes increasingly separate from the underlying organism. So I'm seeing the response as a multidisciplinary approach.

For instance, the issue of time crosses many fields, such as the subject of consciousness. So if a conversation could be started there, as to consciousness going past to future, as perceptions go future to past, it would raise questions with physics treating it as a singular dimension.

Or that as the executive and regulatory function, government equates to society's central nervous system, while money and banking, as the value circulation and distribution systems, are the blood and circulation system. So that when they start to see themselves as distinct and start preying on the larger society, it is like a form of cancer, breaking the body down, rather than building it up.

Rights and responsibilities cannot be separated in a functional society.

So I try doing what I can to start some the conversations. That society is having a cultural crisis will cause people to step outside their assumptions, even if they are reluctant.

Life is that cycle of expansion and consolidation, trial and error, the tension between desire pushing us on and judgement navigating the course.

Those who've currently risen to the top of the cultural control mechanisms don't realize how far the cracks go into the system. They simply were the best at climbing to the top of the greazy pole, as it was handed to them. So their efforts to sustain the old ways will only create more disruptions, often by infighting between the various power centers.

The negative feedback has started. It will undoubtfully be a process that outlives us, but nature is following her playbook, not ours.

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John Brodix Merryman Jr.
John Brodix Merryman Jr.

Written by John Brodix Merryman Jr.

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