Hello SteemLand

Today is Mark Zuckerbergs 33rd Birthday, and I'm no longer going to his party.

I want to be clear, I've nothing personal against MZ. He's done a great job, effectively creating the worlds leading social media platform. But he blew it. Facebook could have been an incredible force for democratic, censorship-free commentary, anything but the giant, and now basically shite-boring money machine and ad-content drivel that it's become (at least on my wall anyway).

So today, I announce with great joy that I will be dumping my facebook page, on MZ's birthday, and effectively not going to his parties ever again, in the style of a passive-aggressive 13 year old snubbing his former best mate for snogging Kathryn Turner on the field at dinner break. (that was a very tough day, but one which I have happily put behind me).

I've been here a few weeks already and made some posts, done a few comments, turned a few friends onto it, and generally played about with Steemit. And I'm seriously excited. This to me feels like home. I see that I'm amongst my sort of people.... I've not seen so many discordians, AnCaps, CypherPunks and general sociological-control-grid rebels in one place.

So I thought it was about time to do a proper introduction and tell you who I am and what I'm thinking about bring to the site.

I'm from the UK, from what is often referred to as "Gods Own Country" by the locals (and "that grim northern place where they're as tight as bats arses" by just about everyone else). Yes, I'm referring to Yorkshire. Home of two days of warm sunshine every year, but a brilliant place for a wind turbine and a water butt.

I live right at the start of the Pennine hills in the Colne Valley. It's one of the loveliest places in the UK (in my opinion) and that's saying something.

I'm 42 (can you believe it from my youthful appearance and smashing skin) and rather than define myself by the job that I do (which is hard because I do so many things, it's impossible to define any of them) I always like to ask three questions of everyone I meet, and I find the answers are very telling, especially when people begin to self edit.

Who are you.....what do you do.....why are you really here....?

So who am I?

I'm a being known by the name of Dylan to my friends and family. I'm daddy to my little girl Amber (3 and a half) and husband to Gemma (for the time being...until she runs off with Jeremy, the milkman with Tourettes, as she keeps telling me she's going to do) ---That's us. Referred to as "The three bears" by people who know us---

I'm a brother to three lovely sisters, and one step brother, a son, step-son, uncle, cousin and friend to some really cool people. I'm a man on a journey, one which takes me into many different (and often colliding/opposing) worlds, from Quantum Physics to Shamanic practices, from philosophy to psychedelics, from economics to noetics, and back again, with a spot of music production thrown in for good measure.

What do I do?

Like most people, I am still plugged into the matrix of the world, and as such have to find ways to accumulate money to buy things for me and my family. For the last few years, I've been teaching a whole range of psychological techniques to people, mostly in businesses and universities. I've been a hardcore techie, having founded a couple of ICT companies, and the last proper job i had (ie one with a boss) was as a sysadmin for one of the UK's top New Media agencies back in the early 2000's.

I also do music, and have my own recording setup. It's mostly used by our little collective of musicians, known as Kalliste. Our sound is best described as contaminated hiphop, because we take different genres and mash them up using proper classically trained musicians to do a totally different sound.

We do things like this: https://soundcloud.com/kallistemusic/opus

Now I teach people about blockchain, cryptocurrency and emerging technology. Oh and why the economic system is a stagnant ponzi-scheme perpetuated by Psychopaths to enslave humanity. Which always goes down well with corporate CEO's.

Why am I really here?

I've spent a long time thinking about answering this question now. And I think the answer is this:

When I was a kid, I remember my dear, departed nan tell me that "you can't make a living doing the things you love."
Just take that in. For so long, I think these words have unconsciously held me back. I am one of the best musicians and producers I know, and could easily have had a career in music, but somehow always managed to sabotage it for myself. I am a born performer, and love nothing more than playing to an audience, whether it's public speaking or playing bohemian rhapsody in a kind of extra-exuberant john shuttleworth style. And for as much as I love and respected my nan....she was DEAD WRONG.

I discovered blockchain, and realised it was the future. Now I've discovered STEEM, I know i've found a place where my thoughts are not only immutable, but also valued. Not like on facebook, where getting a couple of likes is wonderful, but zuckerberg makes the bucks. I mean really valued...by real people. As a musician, I've always felt it was important to buy my tools, not just get the latest cracked copy for free. Because someone spent their time, energy, money, passion, Qi making this, and not just making it ok, but making it really cool. And they deserve to get rewarded, both in kudos, karma and currency.

And I love the credo of this place. It seems like a spot where everyone's opinion is ok, even if you disagree with them, the whole ecosystem just FEELS NICER.

WHAT AM I GOING TO BRING TO STEEMIT?

There's so much I can talk about. I have lots to say, on so many topics. They are going to be my words, the structure of my world. I reserve the right to be wrong sometimes. I reserve the right to change my mind, and backtrack. I reserve the right to say something that someone will choose to be offended by. in return, I promise never to tell anyone they are wrong. I promise to respect your model of the world, even if I fundamentally disagree with it. I will never tell you what you should do. If I get offended by anything you say, I recognise that it's my stuff to deal with, not yours.

Here's some of the things I'm going to post about:

BITCOIN, BLOCKCHAIN, CRYPTOCURRENCIES AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGY

This stuff has changed my life. I think pretty much everyone who is here on the day I joined already gets it. I trade serious amounts of money (mine and others) on exchanges, and I will give thoughts on it as I go. I also teach this stuff to people who have never heard about it, and encourage them to start looking at, investing in, and seeing how the blockchain can work for them in their world.

PSYCHOLOGY & PSYCHOTHERAPY

I've spent a lot of my adult career as one of the most sought after Psychotherapists in the north of England, mainly because I got results nobody else could get. And I never once used any drugs (well not on my patients anyway)

NATURAL PARENTING & UNSCHOOLING

We're one of those families that believes in unschooling, attachment parenting and doing things as naturally as possible. And I'll be coming at it from the point of view of a natural parenting dad.

PHILOSOPHY

My thoughts on human evolution, where we are going, and specifically how we get rid of the status quo which is destroying the world.

SO PLEASE COME FOLLOW ME ON MY JOURNEY.

If you like what you see, please comment, upvote, resteem my posts. You can bet I will do the same for you. Let's all be part of what I suspect will be the most interesting ecosystem on the web as it evolves and grows. I feel honoured to be part of it, at such an early stage.

As we say in Yorkshire....aye, lets all have a right old do.

Love, light and laughter to you all
DYLAN
The AnarcoTech
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