How I Found Peace By Embracing The Anonymity of My Own Insignificance
While there has been much hand wringing, lamentation and weeping in the Steemit community over the last few days, it has led to an epiphany for me.
I am so tiny and insignificant that I could pass through the mightiest whale and come out the other end without ever noticing.
I came to Steemit because I was under the impression that it was a community where I might find an audience to share the best content I was capable of creating (and the occasional shitpost).
While I pounded away at the keyboard for the first few months, I remained blissfully unaware of the robot wars being silently waged for what some apparently believe is the very SOUL of Steemit.
What a dumb-fuck I was!
Apparently the very soul of Steemit is made up of delegated whale SP and bot armies.
Oh, and cryptocurrency news.
When I first became aware of all of the drama, I foolishly tried to interject some calm advice.
Engage, communicate, don't just jump to conclusions, don't take everything so personally and try and find some common ground.
Apparently all of the common ground has been bought up by speculators.
Here's another instance where history can provide a clue to what lies in Steemit's future?
I'm not going to choose a side here.
Not while the vigilantes patrol the frontier.
But, I'm not going to give up hope either.
Hey, in just a few months I've got a roof over my head and 4 walls that kinda sorta keep the wind out.
Damn, this whale bone corset is tight though!
Word of advice, don't listen to the people who tell you to make bricks out of horse shit.
So while all of teh "important" peeplz goez about conquering the frontier, I'm gonna sit back and be amused.
Am I the only one who noticed the irony in this statement?
I get it, that right there is comedy GOLD.
Here's what happens when you Embrace Your Insignificance
Not too long I wrote an article (that is my personal account):
https://steemit.com/steem/@investigation/don-t-invest-in-steem-power-stop-chasing-shadows-just-enjoy-the-ride
In it I advised people to never invest in SP.
I was wrong about some of the numbers, but even so, my statement stays.
SteemIt is no holy land.
It is just a social platform with small extras.
Let us all stop chasing the shadows of big money and fame and simply... enjoy the ride.
I don't have much personal money in SP, I've dug it all out of the ground with my bare hands.
I like the music.
someone has to invest in steem for it to be worth anything... so if you don't invest.... you're just a miner? plus, the more you invest the more you earn... so, I don't see the logic.
Actually that's supposed to be the difference with Steemit, you can "invest" your time and your creative energy.
@dwinblood has made a very good point that Steem is one of the few cryptocurrencies that is backed by something substantial, all of our work.
Right, but without advertising the money also comes from US
By "US" do you mean from the reward pool or from the work of people who actually try to produce content worth viewing?
Or both?
I mean, if everyone just worked, and didn't buy steem with fiat currency, there would be no money in this platform, and your posts would only be worth "tokens"
You've hit on the very argument that a lot people have about crypto.
I think it's more than a binary, either/or proposition. 90% of the U$D in circulation right now only exist digitally and none of it is backed by anything more than unicorn farts, but people still think it's "real" money
For the most part Facechat doesn't produce anything that you can hold in your hand and it's not like you can order something from Amazon and pay for it with 1,000 likes but people sure did line up when their stock went public.
There's a value here, and the proposition is that the value comes from the content posted and stored on Steemit, that has exchangablity to other crytpos and eventually fiat.
It's not perfect by a long shot but it beats the hell out of other platforms that I've seen. And the ability (for the time being anyway) to move value, currency, whatever you want to call it, outside of the traditional channels still hasn't been recognized by most people.
someone is paying for our hard work. Plus the more steem power you have, the more everything you do is worth. so just adding 100 usd worth of steem power to your account could be similar value to 1-3 months of hard work here to whatever your payout for voting\posting is.
Money itself also comes from out of nowhere and is not backed by anything. If we value it then the fact it is being created gives it value. It only has no value if they keep producing it and people cease to see value in it. Unlike fiat currencies though this is backed by our creations and intrinsically interwoven with it. There really is no other crypto OR currency that can claim this. There are some projects that skirt this premise, but they are not as tightly interconnected.
Things have value because we as a community decide they have value and the more people that believe in the value the more its value becomes desireable.
Yup...and move forward, sleep soundly, and always carry a satisfied grin 😏
I'm confused. I just wanted to write a few stories and take a few naps and maybe earn some tobacco money. AmIDoingItWrong?
You're probably doing it the rightest of anyone. ;-)
I just write girly post, the occasional cleavage shot (like today) and lots of food porn. I forgot to write about cryptocurrency..... again.... lol
I like the fact that Swiss Chard doesn't bolt like spinach. ;-)
I agree! It keeps super well!
And lacto-fermenting the chard ribs makes a tasty (and probiotic) snack.
I need to try that! Thank you! You did a post on it once correct?
Yes, the process came from "Preserving Food Without Freezing or Canning". I checked it out from my local library before buying a copy.
Thank you for the quick refresher! Yes I think I put it in my amazon shopping cart!
Oh, the humanity!
Yep, I decided a while ago to stay out of the big shit.
Make some friends, help them out, hopefully, they help me out, we all grow together and don't worry about the thundering in the skies above our heads.
I hope you enjoy my little corner of the internet because I sure enjoy yours.
It is not the job of us mere mortals to wonder after the will of the gods.
I'm with you there
I honestly don't get the humor either, but cool....haha
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I don't get it....what are you trying to say?
The gods must be crazy.
And it's F!%king hilarious!
O.M.G.
Spectacular post, commentary, and influence-peddling! Well two outta three, and all that...
I was most concerned about slipping in the last part about irony. ;-)
One of my FAVORITE movies.
part II...not so much.
Milk them to death, that's what screenwriters do.
Brilliant pull on this image and reference! Watching that movie was like seeing into the future.
What's scary is that Idiocracy becomes more like a documentary every day.
That does seem to be the general trajectory. I fight my own nialism and usually come out the victor...for now.
Hmm, Imma try to mix obscure references here... "I'm here to chew bubble gum and take out the garbage.. Holy shit! lookit all that garbage!"
Is the first part from They Live?
LOL yes, and if instead of being surrounded by aliens, he had been sent to the Idiocracy future..
But Roddy Piper was fresh out of bubble gum. ;-)
Maybe he could substitute Brawndo?
Everittdmickey muted me awhile back, so he may not know where the quotes came from and what is going on.
That's OK, I've un-followed, muted, un-muted and re-followed him and I've been resteeming some of your posts so there's a chance he's seen it.
I don't know if you see posts people resteem if those you mute are the resteemed post. It is no worry. I like the guy, we just disagreed on a discussion on one of my posts about prisons where I didn't actually disagree with him, simply what he was saying was not what my post was about. So he decided to mute me. Stubborn and simply mutes those that don't agree with him. That's okay, I am a little sad as I did enjoy talking to him, but it is more his loss than mine. He lives in a tunnel world and cannot see the things outside, due to his own choice. I have no hard feelings and I still see his comments and such. I simply know because it was my post you quoted he has me muted so he wouldn't understand the context or where you got it from.
You can open the door but you can't make people walk through it.
Porter Stansberry (Stansberry Research, the top financial newsletter businsess) often write: "Horse meet water".
Neigh ;-)
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