John Brodix Merryman Jr.
2 min readApr 21, 2024

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The logical fallacy in monotheism is that ideals are not absolutes.

Truth, beauty, platonic forms are ideals. The core codes, creeds, heroes, narratives at the gravitational center of any society are ideals.

The universal on the other hand, is the elemental. So a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell. The light shining through the film, than the stories playing out on it.

Morality is not absolute, because it couldn't be transgressed, if it was. Like a temperature below absolute zero.

Morals are the codes that enable a healthy society. One of which is that one's worth is a function of how much one adds, not how much one can extract.

Modern economics and bacteria operate on the same infinite growth formula. The problem is when they reach the edge of the petri dish, or the resources, then they crash.

The advantage of multicellular organisms is being able to sense and navigate their surroundings.

To the extent states function as social super organisms, government is the nervous system while money and banking function as blood and the circulation system. 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 financial sector needs to grow metastatically.

It took about 2 billion years for nature to go from colonies of single celled organisms to multicellular organisms, so the last several thousand years of human social evolution is about right.

As these linear goal oriented organisms in this cyclical, circular, reciprocal, feedback generated reality, we haven't quite wrapped our minds around the conceptual factors of the earth being round, not flat.

Art looks to the ideals, science looks to the elements.

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John Brodix Merryman Jr.
John Brodix Merryman Jr.

Written by John Brodix Merryman Jr.

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