John Brodix Merryman Jr.
2 min readOct 9, 2022

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The issue now becomes how to deconstruct that world of nouns, as it tries to cram us into all its various boxes.

We have become a global Tower of Babel, as each of us becomes ever more isolated in our bubbles, taught not to see the connections in the light and wind that don't hold still for rigorous scientific and mathematical analysis.

It's all in our own heads like the internet is all in our computers and phones. They are all connected by the ambient light and waves and so are we.

Instead we have this belief system focused on the objects, rather than the processes generating them. Atoms to individuals. Nodes over networks.

As I keep arguing, we are looking at time backwards. As these mobile organisms, this sentient interface our bodies have with their situation functions as a sequence of perceptions in order to navigate, so our concept of time is as the point of the present, moving past to future.

Though the reality is change turning future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.

Yet our culture is so fixated on the narratives, the more educated people are, the more indoctrinated they are. Try telling a physics grad time is more like temperature than space, more an effect of activity, than some conceptual dimension, if you want the full religious treatment.

The whole function of math is abstraction, from the underlaying reality. Not the basis for it. Map not territory. Signal, not noise. If the map tried to cover every detail of the territory, it would revert back to noise.

Once the system has certified you, you are lost.

Real change will happen after many funerals.

The walls come tumbling down.

The light shines through the cracks.

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John Brodix Merryman Jr.
John Brodix Merryman Jr.

Written by John Brodix Merryman Jr.

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