John Brodix Merryman Jr.
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There are various issues being overlooked.

For on thing, it is only to culture, the principles and ideals forming a community, that good and bad are viewed as right and wrong. The basic reality is they are the biological binary of beneficial and detrimental. The 1/0 of sentience.

Often too much of a good thing can be bad and our mental capabilities are far more a consequence of having to deal with the bad, than basking in the good. No pain, no gain.

This is because it is the function of culture to get everyone on the same wavelength and acting as a communal super organism.

One of the essential principles on which this is currently based, is monotheism. That there is some overall moral right and wrong, based on an ideal of wisdom and judgement.

Yet morality is obviously not absolute, as it couldn't be transgressed, if it were. Like a temperature below absolute zero. Morals are those ideals, codes, habits beliefs, etc, that enable a healthy and functional society.

The problem with the monotheistic premise, is that ideals are not absolutes.

Truth, beauty, platonic forms are ideals. The core codes, creeds, heroes, narratives at the center of every culture 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.

So the real issue, is how to formulate an effective social code.

While the last 3000 years, of going from mostly tribal cultures, to nation states of millions and billions of people might seem like a long time, from our personal points of view, in evolutionary terms, it's an eye blink.

In a tribal society, one's status would be a function of what one added, not what one can extract. Yet obviously our societies are somewhat less sociologically evolved, in terms of inter communal relationships. The cells are not functioning as one.

Bacteria and modern economics operate on the same infinite growth formula. The problem is when they reach the edge of the petri dish, or the resources, they collapse.

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

In that communities function as social super organisms, they develop systems of government as the nervous system, executive and regulatory.

Along with mediums of exchange and systems to enable their flow, money and banking, as a form of blood and circulation system.

We have evolved enough to understand that since the purpose of government is the health and organization of the entire society and not just the accumulation of power by those at the top, that it has to function as a public utility.

We have yet to realize the same principle applies to banking. When the medium enabling markets is privately managed, they are not free, as we are all tenant farmers to the banks.

The Ancients devised debt jubilees as circuit breakers to the feedback loop of compound interest and yet we find ourselves in a similar doom loop.

For instance, the young, the future of society, often have to take on large amounts of debt to join the ponzi scheme, rather than society being able to see the benefits of investing in them, as the future.

When millions of people work collectively, assuming we can turn around and invest individually, is ridiculous at best and a scam at worst.

The fact is that there is no universal code, model, map, frame, religion. These are finite, focused slices of an infinite reality. Put too much information from the territory onto the map and any signal is lost back in the noise.

Yet every structure needs a locus, a grain of sand at the center of the pearl, around which it can build, like rings of a tree. Those core codes, creeds, heroes, narratives, etc. Otherwise it breaks down and dissipates. Tower of Babel.

The problem now, is how to formulate a global system.

For one thing, it is to recognize that there is no one universal model. These are nodes in the network. Organisms in the ecosystem. Tools in the mental toolbox.

The essence of the node is synchronization. Everything on the same wavelength. The essence of the network is harmonization. All these waves rising and falling across space. With resonance and reverberations in the middle. Just as our bodies are networks of cells, as societies are networks of individuals, generally synchronized as a larger organism, but still kept in contact with he larger reality. When it's all synchronization, it becomes an echo chamber, psychosis, rabbit hole, everything spiraling down the black hole in the middle.

The anarchies of desire driving us on, while the tyrannies of judgement sort out the path. Motor and steering. It is an ongoing process.

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John Brodix Merryman Jr.
John Brodix Merryman Jr.

Written by John Brodix Merryman Jr.

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