These are my next three posts. (mostly written, need editing)
These are my next two video's (mostly conceptualized, not produced).
This is more of a placeholder for me, but also gives you some idea of what's coming...
Things are getting very interesting now..
These opening few paragraphs are with Hive specifically, rather then mid-wittery in general.
While it's all connected - on and off Hive - for all intents and purposes of this platform, Hive IS the ecosystem that we're all ‘living’ in.
This is the forum - the arena.
... it's the free market place of ideas.
As such, it's a 100% ‘opt in’ exercise, as we are all too often reminded about.
No one forces you to type your posts.
No one forces you to put your ideas onto the block chain.
The very act of voluntarily committing your thoughts, philosophies, and ideas into this market place does - by default - open them up for inspection.
This inspection can result in many different responses, from criticism, to praise, or neither...
People can agree and disagree for the whole world to see, look at the information - then think about it , and then draw their own conclusions.
This is the beauty of the free market place of ideas.
It gives people the opportunity to weigh up different perspectives, new angles that are presented by different peoples, and then left free come to their own conclusions.
There is no coercion, only free will.
When ideas, philosophies, values, or perspectives, clash, then disagreement can - and will - follow.
In the arena of a social media - the market place of ideas - it makes the 21st century cyber space equivalent of a duel, or a gladiatorial conflict , but instead of fighting it out with swords, it's done with words.
And other people sit down, grab some popcorn and watch the show..
It's a, 100% - opt in environment.
Only those with weak ego's (the midwit, but not only the midwit) and those who are insecure of their position, fear any inspection of their material.
These accounts would much prefer to post, and never be challenged.
They know that being scrutinized, can lead to exposing the fragility of their positions, you see.
Being ridiculed publicly is a BIG fear of the midwit as the social skills they use so exquisitely well, are made redundant at that point in time.
The midwit loses their social advantage that they've worked so hard to cultivate.
But not only that - it gets worse... They see it as a loss to their credibility in the eyes of their peer groups.
This brings on severe psychological pain and emotional anxiety.
The social skills that work so well in schmoozing up to the powerful, and playing politics for approval, only work if they go unchallenged.
They lose their ' power' in a direct confrontation of words where they are seen to lose. (hence the passive agression strategies so favored by the midwit - and the oblique attempts to undermine , what they see as 'transgressors of their 'privileged right' to say whatever they like and get away with it, untouched....(no matter how stupid),
When the pursuit of truth is the quarry, then ‘being nice’ takes a back seat.
The midwit would prefer conformity over conflict.
They will sacrifice the truth for this 'consensus' paradigm.
Which brings me to boxing…
and growing up.
Accounts , users, and a making the mature intellectual differentiation.
If you’ve have partaken in any boxing (Muay Thai, in my case) with another person – or martial arts, or any kind of ‘aggressive’ contact sport against another human being, you'll already know and understand what I’m going to say.
To those that haven’t participated in such things , listen.
...And listen hard.
When you step into a boxing ring, and see your opponent.
You do not hate him.
There isn’t a personal grievance against the guy on the other side of the ring that you’re about to meet and then try to hurt.
You cannot win the boxing match if you do not hurt your opponent.
It’s not personal.
It’s being a grown up.
'The personal' doesn't enter into it.
Knowing the difference is all.
NOT knowing the difference, is indicative of many malformed psychologically positions - of which some - seem to be very prevalent in the midwit.
As a boxer, your job is go out their and use your skills to defeat your opponent and it's by using those skills that you've honed, over many years, also comes inflicting pain on your adversary.
It's an integral part of a boxing match.
It is not personal, it is about wining the contest.
Let that sink in....
*Like I've just said, anyone that has participated in this kind of activity, will know exactly what it is that I’m talking about.
So, lets grow up, shall we?
Hive is an arena of ideas.
Disagreements over ideas ARE the boxing match.
Boxing matches aren’t personal, and the pain inflicted on oyur opponent is not personal – it’s a bi product of the arena - and game - that you are - 100% - voluntarily opting into.
If you are incapable of differentiating between the difference of taking criticism of your ideas personally and understanding it is boxing match of intellect or opinion....
Maybe - just maybe- you are not cut out to be in this particular boxing ring, in the first place.
If you need your manager, medical staff, and ringside supporters ringside to get inside the ring with you, so as to feel a protected - or in the case of social media case - consensus means I'm right' ....then you are clearly not not mature enough to be inside the ring.
And if you’re an amateur in this market place and ideas - and you think you can get into the ring with the equivalent of Mohamed Ali at his finest – go for it! _It's 100% 'opt in'.
If you think you can do that without getting punch drunk, not only are you deluded – but you’re self image (ego) is beyond twisted out of reality .
The social media arena is cyber space.
The only thing getting that's 'knocked out' in the gladiatorial arena of debate, is your ego.
That's it.
Suck it up, buttercup.
...OR IS IT.....?
NOW….
Think of the midwit.
Think of their childish responses and reactions to being intellectually challenged.
See how very personal they take it.
This is not an intellectual contest to them (psychologically speaking).
This - to them - feels like a very real 'life or death' situation.
And it is (to them).
They could lose all of their credibility in the eyes of their peer group , if found to not to be the intellectual giant that they purported to be ( they know this already of course, it's one of the sources of their constant insecurity).
They could lose credibility in the eyes of those higher up their hierarchy - a very real fear.
They need approval from their authority just like they need oxygen in the air to breathe.
'Manning up' -growing up - isn't actually possible for these individuals. (it has nothing to do with genitals).
Actually - That's a little unfair.
Let me take a minutes detour, regarding this...
I DO think that midwits CAN grow up (thus making them midwits no more).
Unfortunately, as I see it (my subjective opinion), this 'growing up process' can only come from an uncontrolled external event, source, or stimulus.
Losing a job, a relationship breakdown, a death - or something equally seriously traumatic.
I wouldn't wish those kind of events on anyone - no matter how well it could work out for the individual in the long run.
Trauma is very painful, very real, living hell...
In my opinion , it's only these kind of extreme real life events that can 'jolt' the brainwashed mindset out of it's coddled environment, changing it from being a brainwashed sheep, to being your own person.
A genuine grown up.
Unfortunately.
Ok.... back from the detour....
I know a lot of boxers and martial artists.
NONE of them take is as ‘personal’ when they are punched, kicked or thrown to the ground when in a contest.
And that’s because it isn’t.
Only the midwit (and others with weak ego formation) see it in those terms.
To people possessing that psychologically weak internal structure they can see it no other terms.
(I use the word 'structure’ in the loosest possible term - for it is the very lack of mature structure that is the issue).
Hive.
Hive is an online social platform.
Hive IS the arena.
The medium (or arena) ARE the words and images that people post.
There is nothing else.
Ergo, that is where the conflict has to take place.
In the marketplace of ideas.
Anyone scared of the market place of idea, is in the wrong fucking place. (or has disingenuous motives behind the action, and wishes to control what ideas are being expressed...and that, is something else entirely.
In the market place of ideas, the gladiatorial arena are the posts and comments section.
Act accordingly.
Acting like some petulant infant by down voting (not spam or plagiarism) rather than engaging only tells the world that you have no place being in the arena.
Acting like some spoiled child who can only express his feeling of being powerless, by exerting power over others only tells the word of his deep insecurity.
Acting like some petulant child who wants to tell the world what they think, but then has an emotional tantrum when the world talks back, only tells the world you are midwit who's entire world is based on fear and approval of other's.
Don't be midwit, grow up. (preferably without the trauma).