RE: Do We Choose the Power to Do Right, or the Power to Do Wrong?
Fantastic post my friend!
We are all caught in the headlights of authority and have given up our personal responsibilities to outside agencies. We have no understanding of truth but that which we are given by those we have allowed to become our moral compass.
Whether it be in the education of our children or the morality of our society, we have given up our own critical thinking for the opinions of state sponsored 'experts' and have long since lost any understanding of right or wrong at a personal level.
The dynamic that we have learned through our interaction with the propagandised society we live in also exists here to some degree. We look to those who have been here longest and have the highest rep as if it means that their opinion or insight is more meaningful than those who may have just joined the platform. It is not a direct indicator of quality or substance yet we subconsciously see it as so.
We need to get away from this type of thinking and learn that value lies in the ideas that are being shared as opposed to who is sharing them and that we also have the ability of sharing valuable ideas if we just open up our minds to ourselves!
Great post! Hope your day is going well!
Indeed, well said, thank you for a great comment :)
Rep doesn't mean much indeed. Look at the #1 rep on the platform, steemsports, they are just a gambling account, that enticed people through gambling-mentality to engage in a free lottery of -risk-free entry at no cost and all gain. Such a scam people supported for so long, gambling where you don't even put up anything, you don't lose, it's all win even if you lose and you lose nothing. It went on for months. Now they still operate but in real gambling terms of making people put up something first. They still post and get the community reward pool from voters on steemit to generate revenue for their shit. Imagine that, a community fund being used to finance gambling. lol, and other people still do it! Talking about these issues isn't popular and just makes one a target because most people don't get it and just like the money which is a higher priority than actually assessing if the action is right to engage in.
Thank you @krnel.
I've heard about steemsports and of course that is not a good thing at all but who can blame people for being greedy in a world that rewards greed? :)
I wonder how our attitudes towards certain things would change if we found out tomorrow that God is in fact real or God is most definitely not real. Would those of us who are selfish and greedy change our ways if we found out there is a God or would those of us who believe there to be a God now change our ways when they find out that there is no reward for being good other than the satisfaction it gives you in that moment?
Both but not necessarily everyone. Some people respond to fear of God and do the behavior because they fear. Not wanting to doing wrong is something we all deep down have, but we justify it at times and the more we do that and accept our justification without admitting it is wrong, then we are more inclined to keep doing that. I guess it's a snowball effect. No one wants to do wrong for themselves, and we should recognize not wanting to do wrong for others either. Thanks for the feedback.
I agree completely but our justification in doing what we know to be wrong or immoral in my opinion comes from the propagandized media and other sources who deliberately mislead and confuse. There are many things now which are socially acceptable that weren't a few years ago and a few things now which aren't socially acceptable but may well be soon.:(
Enjoy your day @krnel. Thanks again.
But, is the power of consciousness really a "power"?
As I see consciousness there is no power in it.
Just consciousness :-)