John Brodix Merryman Jr.
2 min readJul 25, 2021

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It's basic social physics that the more people involved, the more it's about supporting and conforming to the established frame, the"box."

The consequence is that this can never be perfectly objective, since the very concept of perspective is subjective, the establishment tends to fall into habits that resist change, for better or worse. Which is a pretty general process of development, as we all are born with fairly open minds, then our education sets us on a course and we settle into routines.

Yet because it is so universal, it should have been a topic for philosophy to have more fully explored, than simply become caught in as well.

Much of this goes to how our minds function, as we seek signal in the noise, in order to navigate our world. Yet that noise is consequently context for the signal and when we discard it completely, the signal no longer makes sense.

There is that feedback between nodes and networks, organisms and ecosystems, but in our object oriented, atomized, individualized, focused, clarified view, we lose the broader picture, the processes generating the patterns our minds consciously observe.

Keep in mind that much of reality is light flashing around far faster than we could imagine processing, so our minds create these static images, like a movie camera taking a series of stills. So we think in terms of what we see as order extracted from the chaos, rather than the forms generated by the energy.

Then when the academic institution takes over and people gather in groups to ever further dissect and organize the information, it spirals into its various rabbit holes of specialization.

We live in a world that prizes specialization and ignores most broader perspectives as unmonitizeable, airy headed thinking, but as I like to point out, there are reasons the people running armies are called generals and specialist is about one rank above private.

Consequently we have this global Tower of Babel and any child trying to see everything is diagnosed as attention deficient and medicated until their mind fits back in the box.

Then we wonder why it seems like the idiots and criminals are running things.

Here is my attempt at a manifesto;

https://medium.com/predict/peeling-the-paradigm-1ceab7e774b0

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John Brodix Merryman Jr.
John Brodix Merryman Jr.

Written by John Brodix Merryman Jr.

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