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RE: How Steemit Can Not Only Change Our Lives, But Change The World!
Yep. When the mainstream gets onto this plarform, independent journalists will get drowned out (amongst other scenarios which are likely to play out). There will certainly be some interesting challenges ahead. Hate to sound negative, but that is the reality.
We won't be drowned out if we don't follow them! Our feeds will remain in tact.
The only problem I see here is that, I hate to say it but activist, people who do not accept the world as it is are in the minority. You and I may not accept it, I have plenty of friends though who are comfortable in religion, job, politics, family and underlying it all are delusions of grand proportions. That is what societies do, they form delusions. Yes we will have our followers, but will our followers be able to challenge the societal delusions head on and win? How? When the bombs drop and really terrible things happen people like yourself will be a resource and you will gain followers. Against this backdrop though humanity, like an alcoholic, lives a cyclical existence. They will clean up start producing documentaries with Ken Burns and begin the cycle all over again. What we need is a BETTER product. Please if you do one thing today read my Post: Save the World – Collective vs. Individual intelligence. Steemit is a good foothold for us all. It will take revolutionary change though to win the war. The critical question I believe is; what is the platform for the societal delusions we battle; a platform present long before electricity? What are the components and mechanisms for societal delusion? When that is determined then through the miracle of technology we ( humanity) create components and mechanisms to reformulate, restructure, re-something human thought, dialog and the product; the conclusions.
I don't think I expressed myself well, in what I was trying to get across. Obviously our feeds will be clean as you say from not following them, but the main feeds will be cluttered and full of MSM ramblings, that will push the work of Independent media down the chain. Then you have the scenario where we are just living in our own bubble and preaching to the choir. That is a phenomenon that is real and exists. Having said that, I don't think that is the biggest issue. Being flagged and demonetised on a mass scale will be the biggest problem. After all, we all know who actually has the mass troll armies and sophisticated bots at their disposal.
Of course, this is all assuming that the MSM will adopt the platform in the first place. This is where it might not even matter, so just disregard everything I just said..haha