I saw your comment shortly before I went to bed, and I appreciate your remarks on the matters that you write about. You clearly demonstrate a sharp, keen intellect, and your writing is impactful to those who do read it.
I do know that a lot of what I post is mundane and mostly ineffectual, but I am, someone - who after all my education (in which I did quite well) , stood to my convictions and decided to go study Visual Arts at university instead of the more "Traditional" pathways that were open and available to my "academic excellence" such as medicine, law and surprisingly - with a high enough score: journalism.
I am a stern and stoic believer in the value of Art as a critique upon society, and its potential to be used as an agent of change. I wrote a post about a month ago discussing that - "Art is a Threat"
The real threat that art poses to society is not that it exists, it is that it critiques. It makes comfortable people uncomfortable, and uncomfortable people motivated.
I have no criticism of your interests and posts. I just only have so much time to research, and I need to focus. What is important to me is your technical ability and cogent understanding of the issues that matter, which I feel you do.
Art can be very impactful. Bansky's mural on an English court building has recently prompted the government to remove it hastily, because it showed a judge beating an English civilian with a gavel. That's a very strong metaphor for what is going on in Britain today, and millions of Brits will viscerally understand they are not alone - were they to see it.
Absolutely. Different pathways to the same scathing critique of the organised louts who masquerade in the public best interest, but end up serving their own, or the lobbies of nepotism that come out of the cracks like insects, eager to devour the structure; might they get the grant to rebuild it.
My technical ability is limited compared to the prowess of other witnesses. I do not see myself in direct competition with them, because, on a technical skill set, I would be bested considerably.
But I can hold my hand up with pride and say, "here is a node", "it is mine", and only enhance, learn, and grow my skills in operating a piece of software that allows this place to continue functioning.
It's not a competition to secure the chain. While there is clearly competition for higher rank, it's a cooperative effort to secure Hive, and I am aware that Marky, for example, whose chops are significant, has provided node monitoring software he provides to witnesses. In that cooperative effort interpersonal chops matter as much as technical prowess, because enabling all nodes to provide the best security depends on mutual effort. No witness can do it alone. If they tried they'd create a fork.
I will shortly be using the very same software that Marky has available on github to monitor my own node. Their help was instrumental in me getting the node up and running.