John Brodix Merryman Jr.
1 min readAug 1, 2020

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"Why are deeper issues needed to be discussed, concerning a clear ownership theft?'

The rich and powerful are not what drives the wave of culture, but its crest. It is our collective belief systems powering this society. We presume there to be some pot of literal or figurative gold at the end of the narrative arc, be it heaven or the bottom line, rather than the feedback loops actually driving it.

Money is quantified hope and security and everyone wants as much as possible, making it the God of our culture.

Nothing is going to change until this god fails, which the central banks are destined to accomplish, by making more promises of value that can ever be fulfilled. It's called hyperinflation and it has happened fairly regularly in the past, because people do not recognize money as a contract between the individual and the community, but think of it as a commodity to mine out of the community.

If you can get people to understand that, without better understanding the dynamics driving it, you are setting a high bar. I find people want answers, not truths, so there are many priests and politicians, but the philosophers are neutered and confined to the back alleys of academia, to chew over the same old bones of contention.

Not that I've set the bar any lower, but I do recognize how high it is and while I'm not hopefull, I try to be be realistic.

If you want to change the effects, you need to address the causes, not just put a bandaid over the results.

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John Brodix Merryman Jr.
John Brodix Merryman Jr.

Written by John Brodix Merryman Jr.

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