The ongoing civil war within Steemit is not healthy to the ecosystem where many of us have invested our life's savings into because we believe in its potential to liberate us from the miserable world we created and currently live in.
According to www.dosomething.org:
- Nearly 1/2 of the world’s population — more than 3 billion people — live on less than $2.50 a day. More than 1.3 billion live in extreme poverty — less than $1.25 a day.
- 1 billion children worldwide are living in poverty. According to UNICEF, 22,000 children die each day due to poverty.
- 805 million people worldwide do not have enough food to eat.
- More than 750 million people lack adequate access to clean drinking water. Diarrhea caused by inadequate drinking water, sanitation, and hand hygiene kills an estimated 842,000 people every year globally, or approximately 2,300 people per day.
- In 2011, 165 million children under the age 5 were stunted (reduced rate of growth and development) due to chronic malnutrition.
Also read 16,000 scientists sign dire warning to humanity over health of planet.
source: Economics Student Society of Australia
At this time of the millennia, we not only know but have witness the ineffectiveness and futility of central governments in solving these problems. I say it again - the central government will not and cannot solve these problems.
Thanks to Satoshi Nakamoto for giving us back our freedom. Thanks for giving us another chance to make things right.
NOW, the million dollar question is this:
After millions of years of biological evolution, over 5,000 years of social & technological revolution, thousands of wars and crusades, and millions sacrificed, massacred, and killed, are we READY TO SELF GOVERN???
source: amazon.books
Perhaps Steemit can provide the answer. After all, Steemit is a social network, a social experiment that is THE perfect replica of the world we live in. Can we make SELF GOVERN work in this platform to give the world a formula, a model on how we can turn hell into heaven?
The greatest irony in this world is that we dislike and oppose the central authority that imprisons us and yet we continue to behave in ways for it to exist, flourish and thrive. And we know what we need to do to make this world a better place to live in but we don't have the will, the persistence and the stamina to do it. Even worst, we pretend that we've already done the things that we're supposed to be doing.
2,000 years ago, the Greeks gave us the "how to make heaven on earth" formula in a parable:
There was a man who died and was being taken to heaven by the angels. The angels said to him “We are going to take you to heaven but first we will show you hell”.
The angels then took him to a place where there was a great bowl, so great that it was as big as a lake. The bowl was filled with a nutritious stew. All the way around the sides of this bowl were people. Emaciated, starving, miserable people. These people had spoons to eat the stew with and the spoons were long enough to reach the stew (about 12 feet). The trouble was, while they could scoop up the stew into the spoon, they could not get it into their mouths because the spoons were too long. So here, were all these pathetic people suffering and moaning in agony constantly trying to eat the food that was abundantly in front of them – all in vain.
Next, the angels took the man to heaven. To his surprise, he saw the same scene! There it was, a giant lake-like bowl of the same stew, surrounded by people with 12-foot long spoons. Yet something was different here – all these people were smiling, happy, and healthy looking!
Why? “What is the difference here? People are happy and well fed!” The man said to the angels.
They replied: “Have you not eyes to see?” The man looked more carefully and observed that one person would scoop up the stew and bring it to the mouth of another. Then someone else would scoop up the stew and feed it to the other.
The angels smiled and said. “Here, the people feed each other. Here, the people learned the way of love”.
There you go fellow Steemians. This is THE very simple formula to make Steemit a HEAVEN or HELL.