Don't know if you are familiair with that game where you whisper a message in somebody's ear, and that one has to tell it to the next person besides them. And so on, until the last one in line has to say it outloud. Such fun, such awareness, there is a wise lesson to be learned from that company game. And I though this only accounted for messages that were passed through from mouth to ear. It gets mashed up along the way, oh the laughter, oh the joy, fun days, back then. Then it became clear to me, lately, that it does not only account for the mouth to ear. A distorted message can lead a life on it's own, only by getting innitiated. That is what rumours are about, not many people question a 'flag' when it has been raised by some that claim to be an 'autority'.
When panic strikes you know that whatever the reason was to raise 'a flag' does not matter anymore. Because panic took over and people will not be able to use that grey matter properly anymore. That is how crowd manipulation works. When we are in fear, never mind it to be true, our brain will be powered down. It is a natural phenomena, but it can be manipulated if you know how to indulge fear. When it gets triggered there is not much you can do about it. Any human being is affected by that, so including me. That is why I stopped reading, listening and watching mainstream media, when I became aware of that effect.
So, when we are tricked into 'angst' mode, our brain activity gets powered down. Because thinking can take a lot of energy. And in case of an emergency we need all the energy we can get to be able to either: freeze, flee or fight. Without thinking about it, it is our animal instinct that takes over. And I know that some consider this not to be true, but we are still animals, self aware, human race, but still have our instincts in case of an emergency. That is the main reason that we can sometimes think afterwards how it was possible what we did when panic hit us. And I know that sometimes it can safe ones life in real day to day danger situations. But, when there are people who know how to manipulate this, than we are in real danger. Because we lose our sense of logic right away.
And it can have an avalanche effect when somebody only starts to shout: "FIRE!", even it there is none, maybe just some smoke to be seen. A lot of other people will get scared right away and run in blind panic. While others would get frozen in fear, or start a fight, for no apparant reason. In huge masses this can cause very extreme sad situations. It is not difficult to understand why sick minds do so on purpose. It is meant to cause as much havoc as possible. It is a sad part of our day to day reality that we have to deal with those elements in our human kind. Those people who cause this are captured inside. True free human beings would never ever do this, because they would never cause havoc because they are told too by a so called 'authoritiy', 'governance' or 'leader'!
Just get the facts straight before joining the panic
In case of the Steem(It) panic, caused by some Bitcoin fanatics their slander campaign, it would help if those in panic first would face facts with dignity. Maybe first count to ten, then react. Ask what interest those who started the slander could possibly have if it created havoc in the Graphene based blockchain realm? Now, why would Bitcoin fanatics have a reason to cause damage on purpose to something like SteemIt? Actually I did watch video's, so called 'debates' and I plowed through the ongoing Twitter slander party. Even looked at all the so called 'evidence' that was brought in. That just appeared to me as a lot of cynical rubbish. But come on now, where is the proof!? Convince me, 'curses'!!! Then I will not panic, but simply leave, it will be a choice of my own free will.
But you see, just because somebody is a so called self acclaimed 'authority' on anything, does not mean I take anything for grantage. Or being an expert on one thing, does not make you an expert on that other thing. If you are good with gasoline based car motors from the 60's does not make you a Tesla car motor expert. You could have an opinion on that, but that's it. First prove to me you know how a Tesla based car motor works, build one yourself, and I might start to be convinced. But if you just start to shout that Tesla cars are bad and you know because you have got an old T-Ford, that just makes no sense to me. You are still free to shout whatever you want though. Even when I'm convinced it is stupid, and I will explain to you why. But not a big chance you will listen, actually...
In case of Steem(It), or the underlaying Blockchain technology Graphene, you could start shouting that it is bad. Even by claiming you are an expert in Bitcoin, Etherea or whatever. And some will respond in blind panic. If you wanted to cause just havoc then you are about to succeed, and so it goes. Even people in the attacked platform will comply and start to join in the panic, throwing more coal on the fire. It gets worse when they only start to repeat parts of it and just proof that they did not get it either. Just read some post about it not being transparant. What is that about? Get your facts straight, learn, not just parrot about anything you read, hear or see!
If you want to do more then just blogging at SteemIt, then you'd have to start digging deeper into the matter that is the Graphene blockchain technology. And you won't get it by going trough a few whitepaper pages and just start complaining that is too complex for you, so it cannot be right... Come on, any idea how stupid that looks, and the point one wanted to make witht that? Yes, I know, there are a lot that responded to that with blind believe, but that does not change the truth now does it!? Really, because that is all that has been done. A Bitcoin fanatic, claiming to know it all, just by going through a few pages. Yes, it is different from the way Bitcoin works! And guess what, that's why I'm here!
It really struck a nerve, yes, that is true
If I were to call Quantum Mechanics a fraude just because I would claim that I only got Classic Mechanics, and that is how it is the only way to be, would you repeat my words, just like that? Maybe you would, because Quantum Mechanics scares you, but does that 'gut feeling' have a scientific base to it? And it you actually mean that you just want to enjoy reality the way it is, then don't get into Quantum Mechanics in the first place. But you cannot just shout then that it must be rubbish because some Classic Mechanics 'expert' told you so. And I'm really done with people even here at SteemIt who fit this analogy perfectly.
You don't have to understand it to be able to use it. And if you do not understand it, don't judge it before you can verify that you actually do. Have met dear fellow Steemers that want to learn, those who ask questions, without judgement. Those people I like, because they do invest time and energy to actually learn. That will pay off in the future, maybe not here on SteemIt, but anywhere, anytime and not even in what you might call money...
About the title, well, you'd have to dig deeper into the matter that still appears to be Bitcoin called: Elements. It made me laught out loud. Just look it up in a search engine and be amazed! Yes, the one pegging sideways is indeed Bitcoin, but a fair warning to all those who just want to judge upfront, but don't want to invest in knowledge: it is quite a difficult whitepaper. But once you get it, you'll laught out loud rolling on the floor at the Elements way of 'witnessing' for example. Oh dear sweat irony, seems like you struck gold there...
... and the truth shall set you free!
