RE: The False Appearance of 'Good' Prevents Action to Change for the Better
WOW, your post reflects (to me) one of the main issues we are facing, and need to find solutions to.
From capitalism, we went to individualisme into egoism. The later causes us to look for self interests mainly or even only. And yes, there are people who try (sometimes) to think of the best interest for the society, but many do not think things through, listens to others who do (or pretend they do) and just agree with the next measure implemented, and mostly indeed short term focussed.
We practise fire fighting, instead of defining a vision, create solid proposals and discuss them to execute to bring us closer to the vision, take the appropriate steps to actually implement the whole thing and while doing so, always be critical if whatever we dreamed up, defined and executed are still in line with the original thoughts and vision.
I even believe that the majority in a society can already be ok with whatever is done to create a 'better' world is by informing them, be transparent. But it needs to start with a vision the large majority, not 51% but lets say 90% can agree to, then be very transparent on what needs to be done to reach that goal. This will give many people enough, to leave whatever needs to be done, to others. Trust is the name of the game! And trust is build by transparency and good decisions.
Thanks for the feedback. Great points!
I actually had the feeling I was kind of repeating what you already put forward, but in different terms :) But even with that feeling, I wanted to contribute to your post and this can only be done with comments like this, so that it can be an inspiration to others. This topic is so important, it deserves a lot of attention! Whether this is for our cultures and societies we are part of outside Steemit, or this is for the culture and society we do have within Steemit (or try to create, change and ensure we have a ling future ahead of us).
I agree, it is important for people to learn about. But those who are low consciousness and ignorant of these matters, the power abusers, won't care. This post will get flagged by the abusive malicious whale who targets all my posts.
And we as the community shall create measures against the abusers. Anusers are generally only a very small minority of the whole society/community. In the land of all freedom, those abusers can do whatever they want to do, but in the end that creates such bad energy into the society/community at large, we shall find ways to reduce the effects of the abusers. Therefore rules are required, therefore enforcement of rules is required as well, this can be done by law and law enforcement, or by technology as here on Steemit, or even by social control as we had that in the past when communities were local, not global. Whatever method of enforcement is practical, enforcement is required.
Enforcement can be done by all members of a community, if they care to be involved (which is usually not the case). No central body is required to have powers others don't. Everyone needs to take up responsibility of the power to maximize freedom for all.
And that is just it, the issue, not that many want to help enforcing, hence the enforcement is not in balance, since the ones that do not help will start complaining at one point, or the people that are enforcing are starting to complain to the toher not helping out, being lazy and such. I do believe in a supported more or less centralised enforcement force (not perse all in 1 hand, can be somehow a cross between distributed and centralised), who needs to be 100% transparent (use blockchains for that with all the information).
Yeah, because you just re-write others content trying to make a living. Get used to it!
Low consciousness? LOL, what a pretentious douchebag...
Yes you are, and you're the douchebag (an obnoxious or contemptible person), not I. I wrote this, and everything else. You support doitvoluntarily, vote for them, and they get stories from elsewhere as well. You're a power hungry authoritarian asshole. Grow up child.