White Rascal Part 7 - and the Steemit Secret Police have arrived... using some of the Steemit White Paper

Here's a picture of how far I have gotten on the White Rascal painting....I am using vermilion, purple, gold and silver and then I will use blue at the bottom for water eventually...

 but what I really want to talk about is the post I just read about "Steam Cleaners" and how everyone who had yet commented on it was supporting it. We humans are never going to get out of the mess we are in until we can tolerate chaos for even a little while - chaos within our ranks. Our egos seem to have slyly rebuilt themselves - we somehow think "we" of  "Steemit" are different than all those fuckers out there - we arrogantly think that "we" are the enlightened ones - with "Steemit" the new anarchist blog that pays you - but we are no different - I mean we are in that we know some things intellectually and maybe many of us have awakened to what is going on out there - some more than others - but we still are human and we are still indoctrinated into the comforts of slavery - we have the same fears of chaos of allowing others to find their own self-government - -that every other human has  - and it runs deep. And we are still going to fall prey to old ideas that we have to impose outside governors to keep Steemit "pure".

Introduction of Steemit White Paper says:

" The most important principle is that everyone who contributes to a venture should receive pro-rata ownership, payment or debt from the venture." This is a pretty anarchistic idea - so in that system, the principle is everyone who participates is an owner and gets paid. I guess the ultimate Natural Law principles there are "As above, so below" and the principle of "Cause and Effect". It is mostly attempting to be all-inclusive but now with steemit cleaners and probably other things like the cheetah bot - already in effect - inclusion has a requiremnt of conformity to "good manners" according to  - who? I am not pro-plagiarism by any means - but I have long since given up trying to control what happens to my artwork once I put it up on the internet. I think most people who like it, swipe it - I have even put donation buttons on my website and asked for people to donate something if they are going to swipe it - and they don't. I wrote an e-book a few years back with a donation button - hundreds of people have downloaded it and I have never received one contribution - I figure that's on them - they will pay in karma if they are violating Natural Law - and I will get paid what I deserve.

My sister posted an article she had written that had been published in the Point Reyes Light Newspaper, and the cheetah bot commented and told her that the article had been published in the Point Reyes Light. As far as I know, only the cheetah and I commented on my sister's post. I think that was pretty discouraging for her as a newcomer to Steemit.

 "The challenge faced by Steem is deriving an algorithm for scoring individual contributions that most community members consider to be a fair assessment of the subjective value of each contribution. In a perfect world, community members would cooperate to rate each other's contribution and derive a fair compensation. In the real world, algorithms must be designed in such a manner that they are resistant to intentional manipulation for profit. Any widespread abuse of the scoring system could cause community members to lose faith in the perceived fairness of the economic system."   

Here it says that Steem is going to use an algorithm for scoring - not a secret police force. Steemit has only been up for 4 months and we are THAT impatient that already we are calling for the cops to (by consensus) vote on content??? Don't you see where this is headed? The NWO Machine is counting on our impatience so that when they collapse the dollar or whatever manner of chaos they impose we SOON beg for Martial Law to be imposed. This is a microcosm of that macrocosm. There must be a different way to do things - albeit much more difficult since we are online and not face-to-face - where it is much more difficult to look someone in the eye and lie to their face.

 "everyone’s meaningful contribution to the community should be recognized for the value it adds​. When people are recognized for their meaningful contributions, they continue contributing and the community grows. Any imbalance in the give and take within a community is unsustainable. Eventually the givers grow tired of supporting the takers and disengage from the community."

If we do not have the patience to wait for "eventually" we are prime targets for the ensuing police state. We have to develop spiritual muscle. We have to practice Live and Let Live. What do you do when your children act out? Do you use corporal punishment? It does not work - it just produces a violent society.

"Eliminating “abuse” is not possible and shouldn’t be the goal. Even those who are attempting to “abuse” the system are still doing work. Any compensation they get for their successful attempts at abuse or collusion is at least as valuable for the purpose of distributing the currency as the make-work system employed by traditional Bitcoin mining or the collusive mining done via mining pools. All that is necessary is to ensure that abuse isn’t so rampant that it undermines the incentive to do real work in support of the community and its currency. "

This is a very interesting point-of-view. It forces plagiarists and scammers to become self-governing - and learn their own lessons. The rest of us have to learn to tolerate them - as surely we have been dishonest ourselves at one point or another...no? Let he who has never sinned cast the first stone...

"With Steem, block production is done in rounds. Each round 21 witnesses are selected to create and sign blocks of transactions. Nineteen (19) of these witnesses are selected by approval voting, one is selected by a computational proof-of-work, and one is timeshared by every witness that didn’t make it into the top 19 proportional to their total votes. The 21 active witnesses are shuffled every round to prevent any one witness from constantly ignoring blocks produced by the same witness placed before."  

Steemit seems to have it's own ways to be self-cleaning - using algorithm's and witnesses - it seems much more tolerant than individuals like steam cleaners who sound like eugenicists - just like Natural Law - Natural Law gives us great amounts of freedom to experiment with playing authority using free will but it also provides redemption whenever we are ready to live within it.-