John Brodix Merryman Jr.
1 min readSep 17, 2020

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I don't really do anger, just frustration.

We are that dichotomy of desire and judgement. The heart and the head. Which politically translates to liberalism and conservatism. The fact is that not every acorn gets to be an oak tree and if we don't evolve some sort of process of sorting society, nature does it for us. It's like our own lives, as we go along, making decisions that define our future.

It's just that we have this paradigm of monist idealism, where each side sees themselves on the road to nirvana and those going the other way as misbegotton fools.

People are linear and goal oriented, while nature is cyclical and circular.

Personally I've voted democratic my whole life, except for 16, when I voted for Jill Stein.

As for the current cancel culture, I find it rather coincidental the establishment is suddenly, completely on the side of the most downtrodden, against much of the middle class. Having actually read quite a bit of history, it smells of 'divide and conquer.' Meanwhile the same people just keep getting richer.

We live in interesting times.

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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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