Today has been a very strange day for me. My brain has not been able to concentrate. I don't know if it was because of the bad weather outside compared to the previous days. The temperature hasn't gone above 13 degrees (it's 11 degrees right now) and it hasn't stopped raining all day. Going outside to clear is unthinkable.
I have already forgotten how many times I have sat in front of the computer monitor and opened in a browser tab the POB interface to write something. And I've ended up closing it every time without even being able to type a word.
And it wasn't for lack of inspiration!
Nothing could be further from the truth. Thanks to the contest I am doing I have spent a lot of time reading posts in the "New" section and I always find some with interesting topics that awaken my desire to debate. Today for example I found two that I think are worth writing about. One is about the form of governance in the POB community and what direction it may take in the future. "My Opinion on Governance" by 
And the second one is "Stop looking at the wallet!" by 
But not today!
I also came across a journalistic note called "Divided We Stand: Why We Must Resist Political 'Unity'" that aroused my curiosity. This note coupled with the first post I mentioned above go hand in hand. The topic in the note, to sum it up, was about the concept of freedom. It talked about what "free people" should be like, compared self-government to freedom, and said that concentration of power in a small set of hands is tyranny.
Free people should obey the law, of course, but they do so only because they have consented to the law. And before consent comes debate: Free people air differing opinions that reflect their differing backgrounds and experiences, rather than bowing to those who claim they know what’s best. Free and open debate — and the diversity of viewpoint such debate implies — is therefore essential to lawmaking in a democratic republic.
This excerpt from the note reminded me a lot of the POB community, of what we do here, all those discussions about important issues for the community that are held almost daily. Also at one point they talk about how important it was, so that tyranny would not arrive, the use of communities. They use the phrase "community of communities" and that reminded me a lot of HIVE and its communities and how having communities has helped to test different forms of "governance" without the pressure of doing this directly on the HIVE blockchain as such (through a Hard/SoftFork where most of the witnesses must agree).
Every HIVE community is, in a way, a social, governance and economic experiment as well(online)!
Have you seen how interesting? As I said before, it was not for lack of topic that I was not able to write. Rather, it has been because I have not been able to organize my ideas in relation to a single topic. But I guess it's because of the weather that it's like this and also because I'm alone here in Germany right now.
On a lonely gray, cold and rainy day, my "mental zapping" is extreme to unsuspected limits!
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Hoy ha sido un día muy raro para mi. Mi cerebro hoy no se ha podido concentrar. No se si habrá sido por el clima tan malo que hay afuera en comparación con los días anteriores. Hoy la temperatura no ha subido de los 13 grados (ahora mismo hay 11 grados) y no ha parado de llover durante todo el día. Salir a despejar es impensable.
Ya he olvidado cuantas veces me he sentado frente al monitor de la computadora y abierto en una pestaña del navegador la interface de POB para escribir algo. Y he terminado todas las veces cerrándola sin tan siquiera poder escribir una palabra.
Y no ha sido por falta de inspiración!
Nada más lejos de la realidad. Gracias al concurso que estoy haciendo me he pasado bastante tiempo leyendo posts en la sección de "Nuevo"y siempre encuentro algunos con temas interesantes que despiertan mis ganas de debatir. Hoy por ejemplo he encontrado dos que creo que valen la pena como tema para escribir. Uno es sobre la forma de gobernación en la comunidad de POB y que rumbo puede tomar en el futuro. "My Opinion on Governance" de
Y el segundo es "Stop looking at the wallet!" de
Pero no hoy!
También me encontré una nota periodística llamada "Divided We Stand: Why We Must Resist Political 'Unity'" que despertó mi curiosidad. Esta nota unida al primer post que mencioné anteriormente van de la mano. El tema en esa nota, para resumirla, era sobre el concepto de libertad. Se hablaba sobre como debería ser la "gente libre", se comparaba el autogobierno con libertad y se decía que la concentración de poder en un pequeño conjunto de manos es tiranía.
Free people should obey the law, of course, but they do so only because they have consented to the law. And before consent comes debate: Free people air differing opinions that reflect their differing backgrounds and experiences, rather than bowing to those who claim they know what’s best. Free and open debate — and the diversity of viewpoint such debate implies — is therefore essential to lawmaking in a democratic republic.
Este extracto de la nota me recordó mucho a la comunidad de POB, a lo que hacemos aquí, todos esos debates sobre temas importantes para la comunidad que se tienen casi a diario. También en un momento hablan sobre lo importante que era para que no llegara la tiranía al uso de las comunidades. En un momento usan la frase "comunidad de comunidades" y eso me recordó mucho a HIVE y sus comunidades y como el hecho de que haya comunidades ha ayudado a probar diferentes formas de "gobernación" sin la presión que conlleva hacer esto directamente en el blockchain de HIVE como tal (a través de un Hard/SoftFork donde la mayoría de los testigos deben estar de acuerdo).
Cada comunidad de HIVE es, de cierta manera, un experimento social, de gobernación y económico también(online)!
Han visto que interesante? Como decía anteriormente, por falta de tema no ha sido el que no haya podido escribir. Mas bien ha sido por no haber podido organizar bien las ideas en relación a un solo tema. Pero imagino que es por el clima que está así de esta manera y también por el hecho de estar solo acá en Alemania ahora mismo.