Captains log Hardfork 18
When did the flag wars begin? Why did Steemit decide to give everyone a weapon to impale their victims with?
Seeing men, women, and children being impaled by flags no longer provoked a reaction from me. It had become normal. We had become hypernormalised to throwing flags at each other, vainly believing it was a solution of sorts. But the flagging just beget more flagging. It's easy to draw lines in the sand when it comes to flagging, but I've seen a few too many posts callously targeted such as this funny comic which I made. After heroically making it to 15 cents the post was downvoted by abit and smooth because berniesanders had voted on it. His vote had been more than negated bringing my glorious 15 cents down to 1 cent. Berniesanders had had his vote negated and curation reward bonus missed out. Why are we allowing for a small minority to attempt to benefit us by flagging away other whales curation rewards?
I received 30 cents for this, and only 1 cent went to curation! The curators had been robbed. Berniesanders had been robbed, all because smooth and abit were targeting him. Why do we hurt each other?
It is in our nature to use flags. Flags are weapons. We plant them on the corpses of our enemies to gain their territory. The flag wars exist because we as a community find them exciting. Knowing our potential enemies are holding flags that can be weaponized activates our amgydala. We begin our decision making based on emotional reasoning, and then counterstrike before the enemy has a chance to flag us. An endless cycle of flagging. The flag wars... self correcting? Or a one way ticket to self-destruction?
I think I know why Steemit gave everyone a weapon. So we would escalate. I didn't want to be a whale before, but now I want the power to flag people to hell. I need that million SP. But for now we should build a spirit bomb for Steemit where everyone can delegate their steem power into a spirit bomb allowing for one user to totally destroy someone with a flag.
That Steem drought yo!
@RiskDebonair