You offer good advice...strengthen community ties, family ties, LOCAL ties. This is easily pushed aside in the digiverse. This recently passed Christmas, after living in my new neighborhood for two years and not being invited by any neighbors to any gatherings, I did a dude's happy hour at my house. It was brilliant. A group of six guys, barking about serious issues over beers in my living room till well past midnight on a Wednesday (wife was a little pissed the next morning getting ready for work). But, the point. Silence in the neighborhood for two years, then, a little get together and BAM, a little community. Real human connections, people you can call on, people who are invested in you as a person. Good stuff.
I'm hoping Steemit turns out to be the way G+ was in the early days. Substantive, quality conversations on real issues by people that want to dig beyond the daily, bullshit MSM chatter. Here's to hoping!
Couldn't agree with you more about get togethers. I really miss the human-to-human / face-to-face deep discussions about deep issues with like-minded (and open-minded) people; but, unfortunately, it seems this is something that is becoming harder and harder to come by.
Sadly, it is getting harder and harder. Still trying to work by way of craigslist to develop a local crypto group...you know, talk about, trade (outside of the centralized exchanges), share ideas on something easy for everyone to start with...crypto! Lots of good hop-off points from there. We'll see how things progress, a few takers thus far.
I like your approach of starting with something less controversial (or not too "red pill"-like); good strategy my friend.
Yep, it's the bait and switch. I went to a fancy business school so the douchebag was educated into me early on in life.
Haha. You gotta use the tools that you've got my friend.