John Brodix Merryman Jr.
1 min readJan 11, 2025

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At some point we might consider just what are the signals we pull from the noise.

In some way it is a very basic physical dynamic, of what resonates and synchronizes with our prior thoughts, beliefs, attachments, religions, cultures, etc. What bonds and builds on them. Each layer as a foundation for the next, going back to the origins of life. Of building up and breaking down, trial and error. Like rings of a tree, or layers of a pearl, around the grain of sand at the center. Though many of those efforts have faded away, leaving humanity as the current monopoly.

Much as our childhood memories and lessons, when we were most emotional and least informed, are the core. As religions form the primal core of cultures. The totem at the center of the village.

Yet the other side of the equation is harmonization. That larger network in which all these nodes rise and fall. Organisms and ecosystems.

The problem with the internet is that sea of information we sailed through, has become a hurricane, forcing us to grasp onto our most basic life rafts of identity, personal and cultural. Yet they too seem to be stretched and torn from us. Peeling away those layers we took for granted.

To the point puberty has become a fascist plot on the left and the right wants to holy war the infidels again.

Will we come to our senses before it all crashes? Hard to say, but someone should point out the dynamics involved.

It is getting crazy out there.

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John Brodix Merryman Jr.
John Brodix Merryman Jr.

Written by John Brodix Merryman Jr.

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