When you think you see people distorting truth, being manipulative, your mental immune system cannot help but to engage fully.
Yes, that's correct. You know I only like sincere, frank, and authentic people. Those who are always willing to learn something new and aren't afraid to admit that they might be wrong in their way of thinking at some point. Those who like and are only interested in debating and sharing their thoughts and points of view in a collaborative, non-competitive way. As just as I suspect we all would wish things happen naturally and fluidly all the time.
In my case, I'm always hoping to be wrong about how I see things, and therefore always waiting for someone to come along and challenge me and convincingly show me why I'm wrong. Because that's the only way to learn, or for both of us to learn something new. That's the only thing that drives and motivates me to publicly share what I think and my points of view. Learning new things. Otherwise, why bother? In view that I'm already too old and practically have had and seen almost everything that you can stop of having and seeing. ¡WTF!
I think you and I get along well because you've noticed I don't bullshit you, and accept fully when something is wrong or fucked.
Never better said. And I completely agree with you according to what I already said in the previous paragraph. But not only because I've noticed that you don't bullshit me, but because I have also seen that you don't do it with anyone else in order to gain some favors or prebends from anyone. You indeed accept fully when something is wrong or fucked and are always vocal in trying to correct and amend things.
All tribes need a fire to huddle around, a common interest. So although you are correct, if the monetary incentive was to go away, lots of things would change, it doesn't mean people would stop all connections with each other. They might migrate as groups to greener pastures. Strong connections don't explode when the river dries out. Weak ones though, that's another story.
Yep, that's the history of humanity. Since they began gathering in small groups, different clans and tribes with similar interests and attributes. But then, slowly, civilization arrived. With dissimilar interests and beliefs which offered a multitude of new dreams, aspirations, mirages and things to choose from to stand out from the rest. Like religions, which only exacerbated that hidden human desire to establish social hierarchies in an attempt to obtain and gain more prestige, reputation, and influence over their peers. In which they believed would provide them with greater advantages and privileges over others. But what required licking too many asses and petting too many balls to achieve it. And unfortunately, that seems to be a tradition and custom that's still too prevalent today.
Humanity has only been able to adapt a system of collaborations at scale, because it discovered what I call "the convergence of wants" a common desire among big groups. In the beginning it was represented by sea shells, then money, and now digits on the screen.
As I suspect you already know, one of the human specimens I most despise are precisely the ass-kissers and jalabolas. Simply because they are false, hypocritical, treacherous, parasitic, and downright dangerous to anyone who has the misfortune of associating with them.
And certainly in all civilizations, societies, tribes, clans, gangs and small groups they exist and have always existed as long as any form of value that could be called or considered money began to emerge. And in this aspect, of course Hive was not going to be the exception. A tiny tribe in the virtual world where only one form of digital "money" is the only thing that determines the acquisition and display of a supposed higher reputation and a small share of influence, prestige and authority over others.
Yeah, that may well be their personal fantasy. But I find it absolutely intolerable that they try to use it to impose their stupid whims and delusions of grandeur on others.
I suppose I've already shown you more than enough that I don't agree with that way of thinking and behavior. And therefore, none of these arrogant MoFos deserve nor will ever deserve my respect and consideration if they really think and are conviced that those useless, perishable, and transitory digits on a screen make them superior to me or to anyone else at any time.
We must collectively fight them and raise awareness. Raise awareness among them and others that artificial favoritisms and material possessions aren't what truly makes us authentically powerful, superior, and human on this planet.