piss you off inyourface post, although all I'm wanting to do is objectively present a POV without being too 'echo-chamber niceynice' (I'm learning) 😌.Hmm @bethwheatcraft, certainly feel the low morale floating around here my friend :D. ... speaking of friends, you were the first person I connected with on Seemit, when you left a warm, welcoming message on my intro post - a million years, and just a few months, ago! I was really uplifted by it....since then, your voice has also been a bit of a Steemit-pulse for me and I have learnt a great deal. I'd like to offer you something different here.... it's potentially a
I see the perspective presented here (and feel it Beth, lotsa anger) - about a system increasingly cluttered with off-putting junk, disillusioned dropouts, old-style bullshit myths of hard work = success, wtf, crime pays, all a possible waste of time and so forth. I've been pricked by these sentiments too. But all this comprises a perspective Beth, it's not a statement of how things are!! Sure it could be, but is it really so, and wtf am I on about?
There are emotional elements to the perspective in your vid - disappointment, sentimentality, fear, anger, disillusionment, frustration, sadness, pessimism ('is anyone even watching this?') etc. There is the sense that there's not going to be enough after all, the system isn't working the way we thought it would, it's no different in some ways from the bankster controlled economies of the physical world that we thought we were beginning to leave behind....and so forth.
This perception (which is not the same as you) has the characteristics of the 'scarcity' mindset - the game we've been brought up to believe as the only way to live; we have to compete, to hoard, to accumulate at the cost of personal choice, integrity, health blah blah...that this is the natural and inevitable way of things. Also there are simpler factors - expectations - especially wishful thinking....reality usually turns out differently (no comparative value judgments of 'better' or 'worse', just different) and disappointment is bound to follow! This is all subjective.
I'd like to challenge this perception. I'm sure you understand it's not personal. I think it is pretty widespread. I don't think it has much, if anything, to do with actual wealth, possessions, crypto etc that anyone holds. I'm also not saying that everyone is here just to make money. I'm saying that seeing in oneself the possiblity of not being 'financially successful' on Steemit, and getting depressed as a result, is a symptom of scarcity thinking. And what does this notion of success suggest and mean anyway? Are creativity and self-expression dependent on/factors of (potential) payout? Do we not have enough self-confidence and faith in ourselves and our output - what non-crypto value does it hold for us? Is the quality of output diluted by placing attention (and energy) on earning potential and strategy (mine & others') instead of content/self-expression? Is it actually even necessary or useful to worry about these things?
his excellent post on the Abundant mindset, as he relates it to Steemit and life in general! There are also other Steemit posts exploring these themes, please look around if interested.So what's the counter argument barge? Where is Abundance if Scarcity is but an illusion we play with? ...fair enough, I left myself open to that, although I do think that the above questions are valid by themselves :D .....I'm going to ask @taskmaster4450 to speak, and spell it out in
That's it more or less! The question worth pondering is whether Abundance is a thing or not - or - whether this comment is a load of tripe or something worth considering :D - I'm cool either way, these words may have ruffled some feathers. The concluding thought is that if Scarcity is indeed found to be an illusion - what then could be behind all the outrage, disappointment and anger on this platform (or anywhere)? It is not to do with anyone else! It is to do with individual perception, and this is to do with emotional and psychological traumas, issues, phobias etc carried through since early years (yeah!). I'm totally out on a limb here, but this how I see it, and I am challenging you to challenge your own perceptions on this (I am nobody, to think or be responsible for YOUin general). Target the barge with your anger if you like, but do consider considering the perception :D
Your practical points and observations on what's going on in Steemit all make sense btw Beth, this is about challenging the perception of what one assumes reality to be, not about meekly accepting the unacceptable.
Lastly, pls excuse a(nother) link to an article by me on perceptions of scarcity in the Steemniverse. It's relevant to my comment, and is way past payout anyway :D
We'll get through it! The situation will shift, as will our focus on the ephemeral.
🚣
Oh no you are totally right. This is just my perspective. However, the opposite is true. Users like @taskmaster potentially have brighter outlooks on Steemit if they are doing well, or if they don't have to worry about money on here, and are able to accept it on its face for what it is: which is basically an experiment. The problem inherently is if you don't have that advantage, which I would argue is more people than not on here.
The scarcity mentality will only leave when scarcity leaves, when people can feed their kids and pay their bills without worry, when some people no longer live in a country where it costs half of your monthly wage just for medical insurance, not to mention copays, deductibles and prescriptions.
I think this argument of yours is assuming that we are already in the future. Ultimately, people need some assurance before they can believe that we are in a world where scarcity no longer exists. We can't just will it into existence.
I can understand however that this is just my perspective. I however had felt that many people shared my perspective, and from the comment response, I would definitely say that's so. So how many shared perspectives need to exist in order for that to become what the reality is? What therein is reality even if not shared perspective on a thing? Whoa. I feel all Matrix-y right now. Anyway, thank you for the insightful comments!
agreed that most people on steemit don't have influence, and this mirrors the Matrix. However, this takes place within the game, and seems to come from a place where success is measured in terms of influence and wealth. It can be if one chooses to play that way! Sure TM may be coming from a position of 'comfort' and 'security' (also illusory symptoms of the scarcity mindset IMO), but I don't think that has much bearing on what he is saying about the presence of Abundance.
The case is the opposite from my perspective. Abundance actually is, it is the illusory scarcity mentality that obscures sight of it when we are immersed in worry. Again, this may sound like bullshit at first level of inspection, given the way appearances suggest things may be/are (poverty, starvation, fatcats, wars etc), fair enough! I think it is to be investigated deeply for oneself, there is no conclusive evidence. I don't think higher stuff works like that (is there any conclusive evidence that unconditional LOVE exists? for example). The Matrix is the Matrix for a reason :D...If as you may be saying, reality can follow perception (So how many shared perspectives need to exist in order for that to become what the reality is?), do we then not have any control over our own perceptions?....such that we can actually begin to control or at least, influence, our own realit(ies)y? And is there anything that exists independent/outside of our perception? ...hmm that's an old old philosophical enquiry, and I doubt if words/thoughts/left-brain can do it justice.