John Brodix Merryman Jr.
2 min readJan 22, 2024

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The larger issue is the Tower of Babel syndrome, where all the various fields talk to their own little communities and spiral down the various rabbit holes.

To the extent societies form super organisms,, government, as executive and regulatory function, amounts to the nervous system, while money and banking serve as blood and the circulation system.

We have evolved enough to understand that government is a form of public utility, even if having that final decision maker at the top is necessary.

We have yet to realize the same principle applies to banking. When the medium enabling markets is privately managed, we are all tent farmers tot he banks.

With public government and private banking, the banks rule and the only real job the flunkies allowed in office have, is running up the debt the banks need to grow metastatically. "The real money is in bonds."

We are linear, goal oriented creatures in a cyclical, circular, reciprocal, feedback generated reality, so while markets need money to circulate, people see it as signal to save and store. The medium has become the message.

Consequently Econ 101 refers to money as both medium of exchange and store of value.

In the body, blood is the medium, fat is the store. Roads are a medium, parking lots are a store. The hallway is a medium, the hall closet is a store. The average five year old can figure out the difference.

As a medium we own money like we own the section of road we are using, or the air and water flowing through our bodies.

I could go on, but work beckons;

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John Brodix Merryman Jr.
John Brodix Merryman Jr.

Written by John Brodix Merryman Jr.

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