¿Am I A Mature Heyoka? ...Are you one of them?
As you may have noticed, for just over a week I have been publishing a series of articles whose general title reads: "Let's be honest ¡PLEASE! Can we?" and whose current edition today is the number eight (8 ) of the series. And in my opinion in particular, it gives me the impression that each one of them brings a valuable message and ideas in which are worth thinking about, reflecting on and meditating on in more depth. And if you want to read each one of them since they started, you can find them on my blog. Just «click» the previous link in color letters and let's see what you think.
However, what really inspired me the most and motivated me to publish this specific post today. It was the fact that I received an extraordinary and excellent comment on my previous article from a Hive user, which is of my highest appreciation and esteem, that immediately prompted me to want to share it massively in full view of the whole world.
And I wanted to share it that way. Massively. Not only because of the highly illustrative wisdom this user showed by expressing in such brilliant terms his own opinion on the subject matter.
But because it explains in an extremely detailed and eloquent way the key points that directly affect the health of this "social network" on the blockchain. Our Hive platform. And the reason for its stagnation and lack of growth of which many users who make a living in it have been complaining and denouncing over time without those responsible for their improvement, recovery, health and success having reacted positively to such clamor.
And a brilliant comment, which prior to writing and developing this article today. I spent a good bit of time trying to look out and find out if there was any way to reblog it. Reblog a comment in Hive you know? But without success. There's no such feature in Hive.
Well, at least not inside hive.blog. I don't know if there will be such a feature in other UIs like PeakD, Eccency, etc. But since I don't use any of them, we're just going to leave it at that. On the borders of my ignorance. Because anyway, that's what you are here for, to correct me in the comments if I'm wrong.
So, what occurred to me was to develop this post as a complementary preamble of his thoughts and at the end of it just add his fascinating and revealing comment. So that it will be immortalized and in view of the whole world in this immutable "social network" on the blockchain. ¡Hopefully we will read each other in the comments section!
«-Heyókȟa-»
¡A post specifically for coming Father's Day!
Heyókȟas have been usually thought of as being backwards-forwards, upside-down or just contrary in nature beings. It was manifested by doing things backwards or unconventionally. As riding a horse backwards, wearing clothes inside-out or speaking in a backwards language. By instance, if food were scarce, a heyókȟa would sit around and complain about how full he was. During a baking hot heat wave a heyókȟa would shiver with cold and put on gloves and cover himself with a thick blanket.
They actually don’t give a damn about your cultural conditioning, your religious indoctrination or your political brainwashing. They could give two blue shits about what you think is appropriate or politically correct.
They will call themselves whatever they feel like calling themselves. A thunder shaman, a disaster shaman, a holy idiot, a trick doctor, a self-inflicted philosopher. A death mocker, life shocker, booger eater... ¡Whatever! Heyoka is just a word representing an energy. Your whiny, woe-is-me and cries of cultural appropriation are crushed pebbles beneath their fleet-footed boot.
They are here to flip your script and scribble all over what you think you know. They are here to turn your tables into a feast where you just can’t kill the beast. They are here to stretch your comfort zone into a self-overcoming, courage-based, expanding horizon rather than a self-limiting, fear-based, suffocating boundary.
"When you need shelter, a Heyoka will be the rain. When you need a parachute, a Heyoka will be the fall. When your glass house needs a mirror, a Heyoka will be the stone"
"Heyokas are in the sacred throes of clowning their asses off waiting for you to courageously join them but also prepared to ruthlessly mock you if you do not"
The words of the Heyoka are like a lightning bolt which can pierce the heart. For the Heyoka’s words can have a “sharp edge.” However, if one looks beyond the initial sting, one may realize that the words which make a person the angriest, usually have truth to them. Sometimes, “the truth hurts.” But one never really knows the true intention of the Heyoka if we listen to the literal meaning of the words.
The Heyoka never tell you something straight out. Because they make you use your own mental power to learn the meaning behind the words. They use a lack of logic to mock the conventions of our world and challenge the minds of their disciples.
Something which is said today by a Heyoka may actually pertain to an event yet to come in the future. Or a Heyoka may not reveal all he knows for his existence is in faith. If a person is told everything, this person may give up. A Heyoka has a higher calling and must be strong enough to go against human instinct in order to hold out hope for the people to keep them going during times of difficulty.
The exceptionality of a Heyoka lies especially in its break with what the adult world of all cultures considers normal. That parameter accepted and agreed upon by the majority. A sometimes inflexible parameter which defines the "should be" and marks an irreducible border between the acceptable and the repudiable. Or a flexible parameter that, not without fear, admits the existence of "the other" different and mysterious as part of the daily reality where, paradoxically, the one who by breaking taboos and norms with rudeness and offenses serves to highlight the limits of moral, principles and ethical values.
It's not like if an ordinary person wake up one day and suddenly “choose” to become a Heyoka. One cannot take classes to learn to become a Heyoka or “train” themselves to become a Heyoka. There is no way to become “certified” or “apprentice” to become a Heyoka. One cannot go up on the hill on a vision quest and merely dream it up and one certainly cannot make it up either.
One Heyoka always knows another Heyoka when he meets one. And in today’s plastic world, there are many fakes who are driven by greed or desire to become notorious. But there are always ways to tell the real Heyoka from a fake one.
¿Can this person handle fire or pick up hot stones with his bare hands without being burned? Can they prophesy? Can they anticipate the reactions of others in advance?
There are spiritual consequences for those who lie about such things. For the Thunder Beings fiercely protect their own and their helpers. Long ago, each tribe had their own Heyoka or sacred clowns who were their protectors and defenders. Now, just as the eagle and the buffalo are disappearing, so are the Heyoka.
«-'Abstract Aural Bit'-»
I have long advocated the elimination of curation rewards, because curation of content is far more important than as a mere means of generating ROI for whales. It is for the same reason I strongly agreed with your recent observation that focusing so much on Hive itself is extremely bad for Hive. The utility of content and platforms is in enabling people to learn and share what they are interested in. If the only use for arduinos was to make arduinos, no one would have much use for arduinos. It is their applicability to such a wide variety of uses that makes them useful, and just so the content on Hive. The more it focuses on Hive, whether the users, communities, or programming that go into it, the less utility it has to people.
Curation rewards replace actual curative interest with nothing more important than pecuniary interest. Upvotes are doled out not because the content is exciting, educational, or difficult to present, but because the voter makes money. For the same reasons that corruption degrades government, deprecates scientific research, and breaks mens' hearts, it renders content on Hive even more prone to pandering than advertising supported platforms.
Almost worse is that opinion flagging, as you well know, replicates the worst aspects of enemedia platforms that are subject to ideological censorship. Flags, or downvotes, should be limited to spam, scams, and plagiarism. The obvious degradation of Hive from these policies over the years certainly leaves the bluster and false claims of oligarchs claiming to object to over-rewarded posts, flat and glaringly apparent as mere rape of the rewards pool.
It is what it is. Most of the people I could offend and be flagged by have been offended and flagged me by now, and since I don't use Hive for money eventually give up and pick on people that care about rewards. Indeed, it is my experiences in that respect that impel me to do what I do to support trolls and tricksters, like you, in an attempt to maintain some semblance of diversity and quality content here.
Not referring to you specifically in the following, but we owe a great deal to trolls, that may mercilessly lay bare the obsequity and pandering that has so degraded this platform. Very few don't use language or give a nod to the trolls of 4chan that once played a role in shaping the online belligerence and resistance to narrative control of the internet that seems today to have largely succeeded to pacify and stupefy the West, to absolutely abysmal ends and purposes.
Thanks!
