John Brodix Merryman Jr.
2 min readSep 19, 2021

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Reset means getting rid of bad coding.

1) Good and bad are not some cosmic conflict between righteousness and evil, but the basic biological binary of beneficial and deterimental. The 1/0 of sentience. When good is treated as aspirational, rather than elemental, all the higher order complexity, nuance and subjectivity is lost in the race to the bottom, of us versus them.

2) A spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell. Ref. the above, mistaking elemental for ideal only empowers the close minded and confuses the open minded.

3) Money is the social contract enabling mass society, not a commodity to mine from it. We are linear, goal oriented organisms in a cyclical, circular, feedback generated reality, so while markets need money to circulate, people see it as signal to extract and store. Requiring ever more to be added and ever more ethereal methods of storing what has been extracted.

As a contract, the asset is backed by a debt, so storing the asset requires generating debt, which is what our economy is designed to do, rather than enable a healthy society.

Blood is a medium, fat is a store. They shouldn't be mixed up.

The functionality of money is its fungibility, so we own it like we own the section of road we are using, or the air and water flowing through our bodies.

As such, it is a public utility and has to be recognized and treated as such. Taking the punch bowl away when the party gets going, not just pour more vodka in it.

As the executive and regulatory function of society, government is analogous to the central nervous system, while money and banking are analogous to blood and the circulation system. There was a time when government was private and now private banking is having its own, "Let them eat cake." moment.

4) Time is not the present moving past to future, that we experience as mobile organisms, but change turning future to past. Potential, actual, residual.

There is no dimension of time, as the past is consumed by the present. Causality and conservation of energy. Cause becomes effect.

Time is an effect, like temperature, pressure, color and sound. Time is frequency, events are amplitude.

Basically our linear, narrative based culture has reached th edge of the global petri dish and it's time to realize reality is thermodynamic. What goes round, comes round.

Even galaxies are energy radiating out, as form coalesces in.

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John Brodix Merryman Jr.
John Brodix Merryman Jr.

Written by John Brodix Merryman Jr.

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