John Brodix Merryman Jr.
2 min readSep 28, 2024

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It's safe to say that without ethics, society couldn't function.

The problem is that humanity existed, up until quite recently in evolutionary terms, in fairly defined tribal units, where one's status was naturally a function of what one added to the group, so self centered behaviors were illogical.

As we have moved beyond that, to larger nation states and now a global community, the situation has become far more complex and confusing.

For one thing, culture still tends to treat good and bad as some cosmic conflict between the forces of righteousness and evil, because of how the group functions as a social super organism.

Yet the reality is they are the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental. The 1/0 of sentience.

While our technology has become quite complex, much of our sociology remains in a dark age.

For instance, as the super organism, societies develop government as a communal nervous system, while forms of money and banking function as blood and the circulation system.

As individuals function as cells within this body, we tend to resent the power of governments, while savoring the potentials of money. Which has given banking much of the power.

With public government and private banking, the banks are in control and the only real job those allowed in office currently seem to have, is running up the debt the banks need to grow metastatically.

So we are now in a situation, especially in the West, where this medium of exchange has been turned into a system of siphoning as much value out of the rest of the society as possible and now one's status is a function of what one can extract, not what one adds.

Obviously this is necrotic and we are rapidly reaching the point of societal breakdown.

It should be noted that Russia and China have effectively gone back to private government, with Putin and Xi as respective CEO's, specifically to control their oligarchs. Which is why our oligarchs and their legions of moral serfs hate them so much.

Live and learn.

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John Brodix Merryman Jr.
John Brodix Merryman Jr.

Written by John Brodix Merryman Jr.

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