Hi - I'm the new guy

I just discovered STEEM when listening to one of my favourites on youtube who promoted this site as a new place for open views and the free exchange of ideas. That was awhile ago and I finally got around to introducing myself.

I work in a technical area and my career sometimes requires me to travel to different places in the world. Recently I've left the relative quietness of my usual home and have been living and working in the UK and Europe. I find the history amazing here - so different to home - and it makes me think how our current time fits into the long thread of human culture.

But things are different here at the moment - you can smell the unrest. A little while ago I was in Paris and there was a bit of commotion around the corner.

Around that time I had a disturbing realisation - how so many people have a deep reluctance to express opinions that don't enforce accepted political correctness.

Don't we need to turn off the legacy streams of stupidity? From corporate mainstream television to news-printed brainwashing. I guess I'm here to try and find real people who aren't offended by words or confronting ideas. There again maybe I'm here for the ones that do get offended as well.

I think that in today's world - with technology emerging like a tidal wave of disruption and innovation together with the normalisation of terrorism, victimism, 'fake news' and political stigmatism - a place to discover solutions is more important than ever.

If your awake then this could be such a place. Instant, verifiable, exchanges of facts, ideas, opinions, lies, insults and humour - and everything in between. Without the weight of a corporate owned monetary system.

STEEM could be such a de-corporatised ecosystem - fuelled on anything produced by the human mind.

I'm not really sure how this is going to turn out, but I'm looking forward to seeing what happens.