John Brodix Merryman Jr.
2 min readApr 3, 2024

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"They accept things that align with their preferred ideology. That’s the world we are living in now."

That's the way it has always been, for everyone, forever. The signals our brains pick out of the noise are what resonates and synchronizes with our prior knowledge, beliefs, assumptions. The rest is noise. An objective point of view is an oxymoron.

Eventually we need to start crawling out of all our various rabbit holes and realize what it means to be some little mobile entity on the surface of this little ball in space.

When the grain of sand at the core of the culture is essentially Bronze Age tribalism, some of the evolutionary adaptations to living in a world of multitudes of such tribes and their continual networking might be necessary to accept, even when they are painful.

The whole, "turn the other cheek," "Do unto others, as you would have them do unto you." nonsense.

Our mental facilities are far more a function of dealing with the trials and tribulations, than basking in the bounties. Which might be part of why Jews can take pride in above average intelligence.

Yet even then strengths can be weaknesses, if they become too obsessive.

One is the node, oneness is the network.

If you think this is antisemitic, so be it. I'm not really talking to the Jill of today, but the Jill of a few years from now, because this is not going to have a happy ending and eventually some of those left will have to get beyond all the cultural brands and try figuring out what went wrong.

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John Brodix Merryman Jr.
John Brodix Merryman Jr.

Written by John Brodix Merryman Jr.

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