John Brodix Merryman Jr.
1 min readJan 20, 2023

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I got into him a long time ago, for the political implications.

My observation is that so much of culture and society is a reflection of biology.

As executive and regulatory function, government is analogous to the central nervous system, while money and banking are similar to blood and the circulation system.

When it's public government and private banking, banking has the upper hand. To the point of hollowing out government and leaving a bunch of flunkies, whose only real job is to create the debt the banks need to function.

The secret sauce of capitalism is public debt backing private wealth.

Econ 101 says money is both medium of exchange and store of value, yet in the body, blood is the medium, while muscle, bone and fat are stores.

People are liner, goal oriented creatures in a cyclical, circular, feedback generated reality, so we see money as signal to extract and store, while markets need it to circulate. Consequently to store the asset side of the ledger, a debt has to be generated.

Eventually we will have to come to realize money is a social contract and we own it like we own the section of road we are using, or the air and water flowing through our bodies. It is an essential public utility, like roads.

Otherwise we will remain tenant farmers to the banks.

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John Brodix Merryman Jr.
John Brodix Merryman Jr.

Written by John Brodix Merryman Jr.

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