RE: The Implications of What You're Doing Here Go Far Beyond Hive

avatar

You are viewing a single comment's thread:

Agree. And I feel like all the hit pieces I see Elsewhere On The Internet generally written by people who don't really understand how blockchain works are all part of a push by those-who-already-have-power trying desperately to keep that power. I see it a lot among my fellow leftists, memes that on their face show that you never really looked for yourself to see how blockchain works or you ONLY looked at Bitcoin and assumed that all blockchain was exactly the same, and it's trendy to mock it like it's trendy to mock Nickleback. I'm always popping in trying to educate, essentially I see Hive as a co-op which is pretty frikkin' leftist if you ask me, and some people concede that maybe Hive isn't so bad but are still pretty closed-ears when it comes to blockchain in general. Which I think is a shame because we can really take power away from the centralized powerful here, which pretty much everyone wants, regardless of political leanings? But among leftists it's painted with the capitalist brush and therefore bad - and yeah, I would like the moneyless society where everyone has what they need and it's a solarpunk utopia too but I don't think we're going to get there tomorrow and in the meantime we have to survive under the current capitalist system. You don't jump from A to Z overnight, you need to take all the steps to get there.
So I'm in here as the token leftist doing my part to try and change things and mutual aid and stuff. :)



0
0
0.000
3 comments
avatar

I think you described my own thoughts on the subject succinctly! There was a post on reddit a few days ago that asked, "What small giveaway lets you know someone is unintelligent?" And I think my answer is how you described people reacting to blockchain! To me the sign of low intelligence is when someone isn't able to look at information objectively or at all. A refusal to even think about something. And that is what all these people are doing. They meme on something they don't even know anything about.

0
0
0.000
avatar

Unfortunately, groupthink is real and happens on all ends of the political spectrum. And we're very much raised to be thus. It's a journey to start questioning everything and then takes practice and discernment to learn to think critically - whether that's questioning "official" propaganda or that-doesn't-even-make-sense conspiracy theories. Like I've always said, I'm fine with people debating various conspiracies as long as they don't hurt anybody, but some of them are legit harmful and sometimes people don't notice the difference because they've started to question the mainstream stuff but not the not-mainstream stuff, you know? Like there are wolves on both ends of that spectrum who very much want to fool people. But I digress.
It's just layers of unlearning and takes time and effort. I'm sure a decade from now I'll be looking at me now and thinking, "wow, I really believed that" because there are always going to be more things that you haven't examined critically yet, so please don't think that I'm ranting about this thinking that I Have It All Figured Out, because I sure don't. But just, some people don't even try and that's what gets me!
For me, I think it's less about intelligence per se and more about comfort. It isn't easy to look at the society you've been groomed to perpetuate and realize how effed it is, and way more comfortable to say, "nope, I don't want to know" and live your quiet life.

0
0
0.000
avatar

Ha I've definitely run the gamut of beliefs in my life! I did it enough that I just stopped. 😄 Now I just see the world through a wide enough lens that I see all things as true because they exist. 🤷🏼‍♀️

0
0
0.000