John Brodix Merryman Jr.
1 min readJan 9, 2020

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You’re welcome.

Though we tend to worry more about freedom when the feedback loops are positive, rather than negative.

I like to think of myself as a little plant, looking for rays of sunlight, like the endorphins from replies on medium.

The Western obsession with freedom does come in large part from our monotheistic tradition, of an all-knowing God, seeing every detail. Though, logically, a spiritual absolute, as in where consciousness comes from, would be from that essence of sentience, bubbling up through life, rather than an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which it fell.

That philosophy has overlooked this conflation of the absolute, as basis, with ideal, as preference, will probably have to be explored by some future generation of philosophers.

Seeing consciousness as bottom up, “the abyss, staring back,” in Nietzsche’s words, does better explain both the darker elements of life, as well as the transcendent ones.

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John Brodix Merryman Jr.
John Brodix Merryman Jr.

Written by John Brodix Merryman Jr.

Having an affair with life. It's complicated.

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