John Brodix Merryman Jr.
2 min readOct 16, 2022

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You might chill out a little. Otherwise you just become the other side of the partisan divide.

Education is indoctrination. Think language and how hard it is to pick up a foreign language, once you've grown up with a native tongue.

Can you peel back the layers of your own beliefs, objectively? I could certainly describe the Overton window of the left being every bit as narrow and confused as the one on the right, but why not go a little deeper.

Ask yourself, would a spiritual absolute be an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell, or the essence of sentience, from which we rise? The images on the film, or the light shining through it?

Was it entirely coincidence the Romans adopted a monotheistic sect around the time the Empire was coalescing out of the ashes of the Republic? Handy to have a religion all about the Big Guy Rules, when you have a political system that's all about the Big Guy Rules.

Yet ideals are not absolutes and an entire culture based on the principle is inherently conflicted, as all the ideals fight it out. Witness the politics of conservative versus liberal. Try imagining a culture without both tradition and renewal.

Or money; Is it a commodity to mine from society, or the social contract and accounting device enabling it?

Econ 101 says money is both medium of exchange and store of value, but in your body, blood is the medium, while fat is the store. How does it work, when they get mixed up?

In order to store the asset side of the ledger, a debt has to be created. While the stock market tends to garner the most attention, the real money is in bonds, much of which is government debt. So the secret sauce of capitalism is public debt backing private wealth.

Do they teach you any of that on the left, or is it mostly just about how dumb those rednecks are?

Do you see how you might be as much a pawn as those dumb rednecks?

Divide and conquer.

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John Brodix Merryman Jr.
John Brodix Merryman Jr.

Written by John Brodix Merryman Jr.

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