A few thoughts about the last 2 forums on PAL ///

Last couple days i have been listening in to a few radio shows like the one @llfarms organized yesterday LINK and "@aggroed witness forum" today LINK.

To get right into it.... Yesterdays show, as fun as it might have been, imo, turned into basically a "fun night out at the pub".
There were some decent speakers there whose content i follow and some people i respect greatly, but after a while (was there for all 4 hours) i completely tuned out and tried to have some convos in the chat..

The moderator of the show seemed to have the "radio voice" part covered and was easy to listen to. But there was something i wasnt a fan of. With so many people coming in to speak he was continuously asking the same question over and over again while not being happy about any deviations from said question.

Whats the state of steem and how urgent is the situation?

Now, thats an ok question if it was asked of one speaker, but if there is already an across the board agreement and understanding of whats going on, what value does asking the same question of every speaker get you? Not much, i think.

Unfortunately, it still seems to me that there is this tendency when theres a lot of steemians in one place to "hang out" without ever being concrete.
Now this bugs me... Not because its a bad thing to "hang out" but rather because that seems to be the only thing these get-togethers ever turn into (hang outs). Now that we dropped to 51 in market cap it bugs me even more.

"Yeah things arent great, layoffs, stuff, money, investment...etc. but hey, community is strong and Steem is great".

Sure, we know that. How about we start doing something now as a community?

There is this established mantra that is being repeated over and over again, ad nauseam.
The steem community needs to come together!

And so we did, there were at least a 100 people listening in to the radio show and all i was thinking was:
Great, finally we got together, finally ideas will be dropped, concrete actions will be talked about. The community came together, now it will act together.

But no. Out of all the speakers i can only point out a few that really left a positive impression on me. @oracle-d founder (i assume) being one. Talking about the projects oracle-d is working on and sharing how they contribute to external promotion and brand recognition.
Along with @llfarms yesterday and @yabapmatt speaking today on Aggroeds show, that was about it in regards to listening to someone that appeared driven to do what needs to be done.

We had a 100 people there and in the end, from the 4 hour radio show, the only thing i think was achieved is that those 100 people will go to bed that night feeling like everything will be ok.
They get a nice pat on the head and a smile with a "everything will be a-ok, bud."

We talk about using the power of the community, about unified action, but once everything is said, "once the points have been scored" everybody returns to their own small parts of the Steem blockchain to pick away at their own little things they do.

We can talk all we want about the power of the community but if we dont use that which we have, we might as well not have it at all.
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There is a reason why during war the "peacetime" leaders are replaced by those more fit for the job. Those that act, those that get stuff done in situations that require strong will and determination.
Those that do well during peacetime arent necessarily the best choice for leadership during wartime.
And it seems to me that the peacetime has passed for STEEM in the cryptomarket while we still have peacetime leaders in charge....

So, next time, id like to see more "calls to action" and less:

Anyways... Kumbaya... :D