I wanted to share my thoughts on a few things that are happening in the world that we might not be noticing and why we should start to pay attention and channel our energies better.  Information can change your life, your likes and dissolve problems, sometimes just from reading an article!

So what's Going on and how might it apply to the developments within the Steemit Community?

1.  The Internet is creating a global village of informed people

I don't think I need to go into this one too much, but is anyone else really impressed by how much more direct and free Steemit seems compared to other platforms?  Have you noticed changes in your world view or is your sense of community stretching to include people in places you never imagined you'd be connecting with online?  In addition to being able to Google or youtube a topic, living breathing humans and their bots are now available to answer questions and help each other out by helping each other out (comment and like if you feel ;) ).  You can literally just ask the world for help.  That's normal now.

2.  A new de-centralized model is halting unabated consumerism

I just came across Hive account@steemshop and reading the comments and excitement from people who are getting frustrated with ebay, etsy, amazon, shopify and other sites that seemed great but still can't compare to the ease of peer to peer exchange within a Social Media Platform supported by its own Block chain Cryptocurrency.  Like if craiglist, fb and bitcoin had a really well raised, love child.  What happens when the final chains come off and we are actually free to trade with each other?

3. A better work model is emerging

Anyone enjoying the ease of being able to create original content from your living room?  I think as our jobs become automated or lost to efficiencies, we will all start to have a lot of time on our hands and finding ways to maintain our humanity while doing something meaningful will be the way we volunteer to help each other organically and without need for control systems.  Be yourself, follow your bliss and people will probably support you to see what you do.  Being yourself could be the new dream job we 

4. We have access to healthy food again

So many people are able to learn how to grow their own food, find better quality organic produce and share directly with one another.  The seed produces many more seeds and abundance is thy nature.  Once we reach a critical mass in the global consciousness regarding how we can heal ourselves our communities and soils using local regenerative agriculture practices, there will be more than enough for everyone.  In fact, many argue there already is enough, we just don't spread it around very well, plus most of it is produced unsustainably anyway.  

Projects like Hive account@foodisfree and Hive account@gardenofeden  are already showing how this is possible.  Rob Greenfield Geoff Lawton, Curtis Stone, Jean Martin Fortier and Growing Power  are all showing how easy it can be for us to meet our nutritional needs LOCALLY using today's best information, techniques and technologies.  Food IS Free, if you know how.

5. We don’t have to be manipulated by mainstream news media anymore

One person I came across on here is Hive account@pressfortruth who has joined Steemit from a solid YouTube channel which he still maintains.  It was his video about Steemit that made me curious enough to see what all the fuss was about.  Hearing some of the differences he has noticed on here and the many challenges content creators are dealing with on increasingly less than ideal terms with other sites, increasingly make Steemit the ideal platform for anyone wanting to share their take on what is happening in the world.  News is news, right?.  The TV is unnecessary and limited compared to the whole world emerging online.  Who wants to listen to what sounds like propaganda when you can do your own research or hear the research of others?  We are all entitled to our opinions, but we should also be able to share them, without censorship.  Let the people decide, as we always do.

Anything else you thought should be included?

The content was heavily borrowed from this article you might like, but I wanted to apply the ideas to what is happening right here on Steemit.  Lemme know your thoughts and anything I might have missed.   What changes have you been noticing in the world but maybe couldn't put your finger on til recently.... Did either of these articles resonate with you?  

http://thepowerofideas.ideapod.com/something-extraordinary-happening-world-not-many-people-noticed/?utm_content=buffer38047&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

To the future we are already enjoying!

Hive account@ecoknowme