I mean, Dan Larimer wrote a book "More Equal Animals" - which goes into his underpinnings for the ideal democratic process. Larimer, was of course, the key dev of the Steem model from which we forked.
I too enjoyed Blanchy's ramblings. They were good. Their Open Comedy Mic post parodying the research was better :)
If truth is what paints a target on one's back, that's not an acceptable state of affairs, and that is an autocracy or a dictatorship.
For me, I'll just keep plodding away, and doing stuff for me. If others like it, fantastic, if they don't, then...
there's always a political cost to asking question... but its coming to the point to where there's enough of us on the side of confusion.
There's probably a bigger political cost to staying silent. Keep asking questions :)
I'll help you (respectfully) poke the bear :)