Despite successfully avoiding Steem drama of all kinds like plague for several months, sadly I've become privy to some recent "flagging dramas". I'm begrudgingly and regrettably jumping into the cesspit with some thoughts.
Please be warned - this will be a rant that will absolutely be controversial and possibly greatly offend a lot of people. I will not attempt to be respectful or dignified, just say whatever I think. Please don't read if you have ever been offended in your life. If that's not you, and you don't mind reading drivel, please go ahead :)
When I first got into crypto, first dabbled in Steem, I was well aware that the world was getting better all the time, in leaps and bounds. I had nothing to complain about - progress has been tremendous and unwavering in the last five hundred years. Yet, it's hard not to look at our current world and not see a great deal wrong.
Most governments around the world seem to be doing a very poor job. Though far superior than the authoritarians and colonialists of the past, it left much to be desired.
Steem posed an interesting experiment - what a very tightly controlled anarchist society would look like. You would get to see how it pans out, but no one really gets hurt.
Steem has taught me the hard way, that this fantasy is unsustainable. It won't happen without getting ugly, not for the homo sapiens species, not in this form. Extreme anarchy and libertarian views are selfishness decorated with a masquerade (and/or delusion) of social benevolence. On Steem, I have seen far too many times, time and time again, so called peace-loving anarchists rage and rave hatefully the moment their very self-obsessed cocoon is minimally threatened.
To be clear, a vast majority of Steemians seem to be sensible people with no such delusions.
I have always respected, and will continue to respect, absolute freedom of speech.
I don't believe anyone deserves or is entitled to shit, we are all equally irrelevant creatures in an infinite universe. So absolute freedom for all :)
I love that the Steem blockchain is censorship-resistant, and will continue to support this feature.
Whilst in the past, I was very accepting of every differing point of view, I'm no longer going to accept or refrain from expressing a negative opinion. My experiences on Steem, combined with overwhelming evidence throughout history, tells us all that every bit of evil, every bit of suffering, every bit of pain the world has every experienced, has been through indulgence of irrationality.
Homo sapiens are very much a species in progress, stuck between a rock and a hard place. We have "conscious" faculties of reason and rationality; yet a lot of our brain is stuck with crude pattern recognition that made our ancestors survive in the African savannahs. Unfortunately, far too often, we resort to our primal thoughts, leaving aside reason.
Politics is subjective. It need not be, there's fair scope for reason here.
Our world has improved significantly in a great number of ways - and there's overwhelming evidence to support it. It's easy to sense the progress, and where the evolution (through genetics as well as memetics) of our species is headed. I won't list out all of it, but you know what they are - beginning with compassion and a move away from selfishness. There have been ups and downs, and of course, it's still hard work.
However, every single time something bad happens, it's the primal part of someone's brain that engaged and discarded the rationale.
So here's what I'm getting at - I will no longer stand by anyone exercise thoughts or actions utterly bereft of reason. Anything that has overwhelming evidence supporting it, I shall support. Anyone expressing ideas that have overwhelming evidence against it, I shall fight. I will absolutely respect their rights to say it, but I will not stand by and nod.
Of course, I'm well aware that my protestations will fall on deaf ears. Irrationality is a far grander problem, a neurological condition without a short term solution. But I'm absolutely confident there will always be incredible progress in the coming centuries, just as there has been exponential progress in the last few centuries.
So, I'll just leave a downvote and move on :)