John Brodix Merryman Jr.
1 min readDec 4, 2019

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For one thing, we might begin to understand how these feedback loops drive our own, goal oriented, reductionist culture.

For instance, money is the medium enabling markets, but we treat it as a commodity to extract from them. Wonder how well that works?

It is the signal we extract from the noise of the economy and society, which are the context giving money it’s function.

So to save what amounts to a contract, with one side an asset and the other a debt, we need debt equal to the assets. Which creates an enormously powerful positive feedback loop for those controlling this process, but an equally destructive negative feedback loop for the rest of society and the environment on which it rests.

https://medium.com/dialogue-and-discourse/the-worm-in-the-apple-of-modern-capitalism-a46081000d5a

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John Brodix Merryman Jr.
John Brodix Merryman Jr.

Written by John Brodix Merryman Jr.

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