Does STEEMIT change people to write something that does not represent who or what they are? What does change in life even mean - a philosophical approach

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Does STEEMIT change people to write and post something that is not their own, what represents them in their core?

STEEMIT pays a post for the votes it gets, so people are posting what they think will go trending. This system can be considered not perfect, for posts that are original and represent a person or a good idea, will go with difficulty trending. Some do, to be fair. But how do we know what is a good idea or not? It all depends on our own personality, whether you like intellectual development or not. Some people enjoy a very simplistic idea of sharing their own pictures or others post real life stories and go viral. How about philosophical ideas that are difficult to understand and take time to. Well i think we will see with the second part of the post if you can understand it. Comment if you did ;)

Posts seem to be valued by tittles on first glance in the eyes of many, and of course reputation. Also a lot of people who are posting are not very articulate and do not know how to post something meaningful that comes from them and so they just find something on the internet and post it for their own. This of course is not welcome.

Example

If an author is good at religion and is not having any luck on STEEMIT should the author post something what he is not good at for example cooking. Not everyone can cook, but everyone can post how to cook some dish taken out of an recipe book, and has a higher chance of going trending. So the obvious question is why should we not change the way STEEMIT system works to earn money?

Every author should be thinking more in the line: what idea has yet to be published and maybe can help others to understand something. This is surely overly optimistic from me, but an idea spoken and shared to others is already worth by itself. It is not necessary that an idea has to help others, it is enough just to be original, something new - never seen before. A meaning to ideas can come later in life, but not everyone can think of them, therefore it is necessary for everyone to post and share ideas just for the sake of knowing these ideas. Intellectual development derives from this. No need to take my word for it, take the word of every great thinker and writer in our history. How many wrote books with such amazing ideas that they changed the world, countless.

Now we just need to find a way to find a needle in a haystack to upvote a post that contains that idea, for a means to say thank you for the idea and helping others to develop themselves further.

I hope this will help anyone in creating a better STEEMIT algorithm to find such posts.

I am still new to this, so i do not know every single thing about STEEMIT, if you disagree with this please tell me in the comment section. No need to flag ;)

Now comes the difficult part of the post. Enjoy.

Do ideas change people?

The most important thing in life of any individual person is an unusual and often a lack of an event which can cause the life to change. Of course we must not be naive and think that every person wants to change and that it is written in our gens. It is simply not true that everyone would want to change for some are very comfortable in the roles of their lives, simply said they are happy with it. There are also those that are to their core not satisfied with their lives and still do not want any change. So we ask ourselves why would a person change, why would it want to? And in the end if he could, would it?

Change is always related to the idea of a certain idea which means that it's not irrelevant for which idea we choose for, when we do want to change.
The history is overflooded with tips on how people can change and that it is good to be like that. It portrays an idea of an utopic-idealistic person how he/she should be. Everywhere we go we notice these strange inscriptions how to be better or how to fulfill our need to become something we are not. In this we can find enough evidence and arguments for the necessity of changing in this moment, when the capitalism is literally bombarding us with tips, information and other spiritual contents that we should grow, change, develop, transform ourselves and so on.
In a symbolical sense all these "evidence" and arguments and their need for change for life or just simply change, do not interest me, not in the least. I am more interested in something else.

What happens with a man that in a time something independently from him and his expectations happens in his world of ideas. To say it more bluntly, from his perspective in that moment it seems that some strong arm pushed him into some certain way. This idea is very agitating. In all fairness that strong arm is an idea that is intertwined in a network of other ideas. These ideas are already intertwined and therefore so are the forces independent of man. Ideas are namely not connected by man, but are logically necessary and structurally intertwined. Therefore they are independent of man which he is only a temporary humble user.

What is written means that the human is always inferior to ideas, not just sometimes. The ideas take hold of him, that is why he repeats the same and similar sentences and constantly calls upon on these very ideas. A man can also change on its own only if the change is possible when subjugating to another idea, allowing to be taken hold of new ideas which he may already know of, but was not subjugated to them.

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Hi @robinhoodwhale,

I am more than happy to be a part of your support. Will gladly help out in finding new authors that are truly unique.

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Great post @darkminded I up voted your article, and now your rep number is 36, I think it went up by one point! Cool.
Also, as for me, I do write about many different topics. Most is my own writing, and will occasionally repost an article from the Internet but I will write about that story first.
I think that if you are an expert in Religion, then keep writing about it. Eventually, good writers/stories will be recognized. But also, as a person/human being, the Religious Expert also has other aspects to his life. So maybe they have an Old Family recipe for a special meal or dessert, then I think they should write about that too. This will help expand their audience and expose their work to a different audience.
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Thank you for the comment. That was an example, i am not the one religious expert, i am just an ordinary guy interested in philosophy, psychology and politics. I have plenty to say about these things, but politics does not really go trending ;)
Thank you and good luck to you too.

Good post! I think it helps people reach their true potential in some ways by challenging them TO change things up!

If you don't know how to swing with a hammer, how can you execute its proper function? An idea has to be born first in your head to know how to do it.

my point was you can't hammer a nail with an imaginary hammer

What good does knowing how to swing a hammer do you if you are too lazy to go get a hammer, a nail and a piece of 2by4?

That's an upvote,follow and reblog. Change is one of the themes i've been trying to work with my art and this is really some good food for thought.

I'm really glad i could do that. Thank you. It's an honor.

I think it depends on who and what you are. Art is self indulgent, or else it is not art it is pandering. I write about what is on my mind or what I find interesting at the moment.

It is self indulgent, didn't mean to offend anyone. Art for me has a deep meaning, but don't know how to express it yet.

Not offending me at all, I create for me and for those who care about me. I think you are making good points, we have to be true to ourselves first.

Upvoted 100% @darkminded153
I believe that CHANGE is the only thing permanent in this world .. Some ideas could be true at our "now" and will be proven wrong by tomorrow.
I don't think ideas change any person - I think the person decides to step up and challenge himself to be different than yesterday and decides changes should happen in him
as for what other authors seem to be writing here - I don't think it's because the game changed them - i think they were just unleashed. Perhaps - that's who they are , they had been and would be.
I live in the principle my mother taught me back when I was just 15 and was going to be living alone in a dormitory to study in the university.
She said;

"Be like water - it could take the shape of any container you can place it in without losing itself."

Thank you.
I believe that only an idea can change people, for if they don't have any ideas on how to do things differently, they simply won't. There are 3 different ways that people behave.

  1. I like my life and do not want to change anything; i don't like my life but i don't want to change anything.
  2. I don't like this life, i want to go back to the "golden days", which is often used by muslims (hope i don't offend anyone)
  3. The idea of a wish for something new, which consists as a part of universality. Something that is undying. Something more than myself is addressing me.

@darkminded153 you have a point - it could be, too

For me, its just a way to express more about things that interest me.

Even if people write on events or topics that are trending, they can still about these topics from their own perspective or give their opinions about these issues.

I really like the idea of people changing who they are in order to succeed on steemit, and the moral impact of that.