Hello Stellabelle, thank you for your response! All three of your points certainly make a lot of sense.
Rewards and retributions are definetly effective tools to keeping a large group of very diverse people on track. I think point three is the missing link, and now that you mention it I completely understand why this site is such a good fit for me.
By having more of a "peace is patriotic" cultural foundation, my articles will certainly be valued and appreciated rather than simply dismissed because they do not follow mainstream media's scripted narrative.
Foreign intervention which is masked as "humanitarian intervention", spreading "democracy" by dropping bombs and facilitating illegal and unwarranted "regime change" are all things I am very much against and write about frequently.
Thank you so much for clarifying all of this for me. I have a good friend of mine that has written half a dozen books and over a thousand articles and I was telling him today that he should join steemit, the more quality work we have here the more we can become informed citizens of this world and facilitate some much-needed change.
Thank you again and I am glad that I arrived as well! Stay well dear @stellabelle :-)