Freedom Tuesday will, until further notice, not be serializing Edward Bellamy's Looking Backwards.
Neither will we finish the follow on work, Imperium ab Imperio, nor the one that reads like it was written today, but was published in 1908.
This book was first published in 1887, while freedom of thought was still a thing.
Before the advent of 'Murica!
I hope you can learn from this outline how to manage the broader world in a way that is agreeable to most everybody.
Only by finding consensus peacefully, and living within its parameters, can we hope to live on a peaceful planet.
Rule by force has had its day, it's past time to do something different, iyam.
You would've seen, if you had stuck with us through the chapters, why this book was not talked about in the #fakeducation indoctrination center I like to call skool.
We got interrupted serializIng 'the next one' by 'The Community' disagreeing that serializing arcane books is somehow valuable to them.
The question I ask is, would you have read them any other way?
I'm finding that I wouldn't have.
You, and I, dear reader, don't count in this 'community', if we take what was done to me at face value.
You'll notice that I still wear the badge of scorn and derision at the bottom of every post and comment I make.
When I was first contemplating the repercusions of being an outlaw author on an authoritarian chain the fear of punishment kept me in line.
I wanted those bot curation votes.
I didn't speak out while the 'bad whale' was crushing people willy nilly for speaking their minds.
It would have been suicidal.
As it was, I was allowed to be a shining beacon to others of 'the community' tolerance of edgy speech.
Playing along with the cancel culture has now put me in the spotlight.
Not many of the really elegant outsiders left to speak up.
Let me state, a number of 'good' content creators have been run off this platform over being bullied with autocratic rules and domineering personalities.
I hope this post serves as a call to the enforcers that 'the community' is expanding.
The winds have changed in the blockchain 'community' formerly known as steem.
The worm is slowing turning in this Hive.
Maybe we should stop scaring off the customers, eh?
This wind shift can only be more inclusive of us all, as the former was pretty damn exclusive.
If you had been here during the n2, you would know well how difficult it was, then.
I like to call this new current,...get ready,...
'decentralizing the reward pool'™
Shocker, I know.
As long as the top 10 votes take ~30% of the pool, only idiots join in that party, knowingly.
Source: @statsmonkey
I find it 'disturbing' that 'the community' knowingly allows this to continue.
However, even over 3 years ago, the inflation was doing its work decentralizing control over the pool.
https://peakd.com/steemit/@bitgeek/payout-stats-report-for-15th-december-2017--part-i
https://peakd.com/steemit/@bitgeek/payout-stats-report-for-31st-march-2018--part-ii
This fact of the math has worked to drive off the greediest of those that loved to reap the pool with their powers.
No longer is 'the community' determined by the will of one person.
So, at least, we got that going for us.
We will know we have won when imitations of the above reports are allowed to be reproduced.
Heaven forbid that one of the 'popular' writers sacrifice his popularity by exposing the truth of the math.
I had a time when I joined in the justice struggles until I realised that no one had wronged me until then, but that I had, as so often, jumped on the many voices that complained loudly and cried foul. In fact, I once got carried away with a comment that one of those referred to as "whale" had not liked. I was a thorn in his side with my democratically naive suggestions. And indeed, I then dedicated a separate post to him, arguing with him long and wide. In other words, I had no respect for his influence and his voting power (but respected him enough to engage into a debate). Which flamed higher and lower and eventually went out.
We did not part ways in agreement, but remained - at least outwardly - at odds. I had thus done my part in the justice debate and henceforth I largely ignore it. Or look at it philosophically. For me, this is a great place to blog, I serve some of the bloggers here with extensive commentary and always press 100 per cent. On the road in the ether I have lost where I once autovoted, but it may also be that there are hardly any active users any more, as I have gone through a certain change from active to inactive bloggers, and now surround myself with something like a core, loosened up by spontaneous encounters and excursions into the unknown.
On the way I also met you, forgot you again and now found you again. I remember you as an excellent book tip giver and look forward to everything you recommend. Forever grateful for "And then there were none" :)
By and large, people are too impatient and they want to pull at the grass that grows all by itself when you enter the garden with joy and serenity. Things want to develop organically, but they don't if they "have to".
Taking on the big guys requires a certain art both in argumentation and in not starting a war or inciting others to do so. I don't bow to anyone just because they have more power or opportunity. I just stop talking to or about him directly at some point.
Before the one that I won't name took his leave, there was no arguing, only dying on the walls.
Now we have an actual chance at changing the 'consensus' by speaking out.
The hardfork is coming, I hope you start to build support for the changes you see necessary.
If you haven't joined the discords, please do so, and be a voice of reason there.
The promise we were sold all these years ago might just happen now that those most opposed to decentralization have gone.
Far less stake is trying to maintain their percentage of the whole.
What do you mean by that? I want to understand.
Support can be seen in many variant ways. I even would not know, to whom I should talk or address things, which I did not recently experience myself here on the Hive. I even am not certain about changes I want to see. Do I think downvoting is principally wrong? Yes, when it is mis-used in terms of not agreeing on a subject or else not coherent reasons (in my eyes). So I never downvote, only maybe once a year, like just recently when I got an ad on my blog from a hacked account, someone told me that this was the case and I went checking it and also did not receive an answer from that account.
Do I find circle voting and buying votes wrong? Yes, I do. Will that change? I got deep into that matter and was told that you cannot prevent it that people create multiple accounts and that you never will know who is who. I accepted this.
From what I think, my own support is worth something is, that I behave and maintain what I do here in my style and do not care so much about how much financial gain I may make. "Leading by my role model" is what I think I can do best. But I don't have all answers and I maybe wrong. Right now, the real world concerns me more.
I came here not for the promises, just out of curiosity. I never believed in those promises, to be honest. Why would anyone promise me something, who I never met, don't know in person, whom I do not know his true motives? Though I admit, I do have some benefits, not money-wise, but in terms of making contacts to people to which I may have never had the chance to speak.
I do support your view, though and may be someone to talk to... ?
Greetings to you.
The worm is slowing turning in this Hive.
No it's not.
I find it 'disturbing' that 'the community' knowingly allows this to continue.
The people that can change things, have no incentive to do so, so why would they?
"...We can change things. My strategy is a good one.
I cannot divulge any details on here for obvious reasons..."
Lots of love.
Saul Alinsky
The worm is turning, many folks, that were getting ignored, are now getting votes.
My autovoter is filling up with posts I'm too late to vote on because they are over 2htu.
When you get ready to let the damn burst, you let me know, my team is growing.
gab
are we federating?
I think - confederating may be a better term...it all depends on the rebels!
The 'Mid-wit war', is coming...
https://peakd.com/hive-122315/@lucylin/the-psychological-anatomy-of-the-mid-wit-part-2-important-
we should have, at most, 8 witness votes each. That would shake things up for sure.
Get your posts ready, the hardfork is coming, and they don't like to talk about changes any other time.