Hahaha I love that ghengis khan quote! You are great at cheering people up. I’m fine, really, I just like to do what my parents used to call “globalizing”. I call it “motivating myself to make things better”. The way to make things better is precisely as you say. We need to keep supporting each other and growing this community within the larger community on Steemit.
I’m not so sure we will rise to the top on merit alone, I suspect we will need to covert some of the douches, but that’s something we can only do by “being the change”, preaching at them too much will only make them defensive. Some of the worst offenders will eventually see the prospect of this whole place falling down around them and realize that they could have done better and they’ll get their act together. Some won’t, but those who do will certainly be on our side.
We will rise to the top because we are the best, we have no competitors, Nothing can stand in our way. it will take time & effort is all & we all have a bit of that to give. The douches don't have our panache to make it in the long run. All they have at the moment is the power & it doesn't look to me like many folk are best pleased with the current distribution or system of things.
So long as we make it there on merit it won't be begrudged like it is for the current crop.
We are writing the history for the future here, Think about that for a minute our great great grandchildren bragging in the playground about how they are related to the early literary legends of 21st century Steemit. :)