neither you nor I can demand attention or complain effectively if given too much or too little. It would have no particular effect on my emotional or financial or other life.
Pfft ! lol...I demand your attention ! lololol
It seems to me that you are speaking out in favour of it because, as it looks to me, you seem to regard your earning potential here as primary and express your social needs frequently.
I made the decision (3 years ago - ish), to try and 'make a living' via writing/creating - first steem/hive, now blurt .
....not including my paid blogs elsewhere, which I intentionally keep separate from these platforms - ne'er the twain shall meet, and all that).
It was also on the proviso that I would speak my truths.
If it was just about income, I could do a great many other things which would far exceed any income from choosing to write (by orders of magnitude ).
Quick segue:
I recently got in touch with an old friend (not spoken to him in 25 years), and we were telling each other about what we'd been up to , blah blah...(He's very successful now - much cleverer than me, and with no philosophical bent).
he send to me "you're the only I person I've ever known that's truly not materialistic, and couldn't give a fuck about the money - you idiot!" (lolol)
.....end of segue.
I need very little to live my life, materially speaking - and because of that - gives me a freedom others may not have.
Social needs?...I'm not sure what you mean exactly.....
Social stimulus ? ....Yes
Your expressive resistance to the powers that be doesn't seem to take into account that in the digital, relationship-detached world,
When 'the philosophical' meets 'the pragmatic', this is what happens.
Your pragmatic perspective is one that I find so interesting.
you are stuck in an endless loop of debate and gossip that knows no bedtimes and no end
Yeah, Nietzsche (and many others) had that problem to - and he went loopy ! lol (although that might also be down to his sexual actives and not his thought processes...)
...and no, I have no 'delusions of grandeur' to put myself into the same category of those great minds.
When I disengage from the internet however - my 'endless loops of debate with no bedtimes and no end' doesn't follow me (too much)...
...Growing food, keeping healthy, looking after my doggies, looking after some old gits who can't cook for themselves (I cook three or four times a week for 'em)....and then there's Luce of course (who doesn't have any philosophical perspectives of life, whatsoever)...All keeps me well grounded*.
*Unlike Nietzsche , et al .
This is only from my understanding of many philosophers and thinkers lives ( which may, or may not, be accurate)...with the notable exception of Voltaire....he really had it sussed.
'Endless loops of debate with no bedtime' is an excellent description of my minds activities, btw....My purpose is to try and 'cut the loops' as much as possible.
*Fortunately my bedtimes are sound and peaceful (thank god)...imagine trying to go to sleep with all that cacophony ! lol
What you cite as moral and ethical - much of which I can go along with - is sabotaged by yourself again the moment you jump on the stories of others who are upset about some other person and morally discredit them. Very bad idea.
From my perspective, you vastly underestimate that the messages you send out into the world will always be interpreted by the receiver and there is absolutely nothing you can do about it if someone insists on their interpretation. Just as I, for example, am unlikely to convince you that I think your postings are self-sabotage in many ways.
You have complained long, often and rampantly that your source of income on hive has dried up, now you are again putting yourself to bed with problems that, as I see it, nobody can solve. By "nobody" I mean the coders or founders of a platform like this. I find your strategy in this regard counterproductive in terms of the small income you need to live, which would seem to be quite achievable/or already sufficient for you here. When are you going to learn that the whole thing can be gamed because what on the one hand makes the game possible is also what makes it conflict-prone? You are the only one who can make peace with that.
You call for the operators and want them to make an example of Opidia (or whoever you are targeting) for what they are doing here on the blockchain as immoral, at the same time you are committing an immoral act yourself (your blind spot?). On the one hand you appeal to an authority (funny that you don't see that) on the other hand you reject it when it then appears and disagrees with you.
Hence my question: what if the founder of blurt had agreed with you? What if he had actually called the user exploitative and misbehaving, publicly? Would you be satisfied with that, and what do you think, is it right that anyone could be publicly pilloried in this way at any time, something that the opponents of the so-called new world order are constantly warning about: the fight between people on a horizontal level.
But of course, if the people want individuals from among them to be put on display, the people will get it. After all, even the Roman theatre and the marketplaces of the Middle Ages had full ranks, didn't they? It seems that morality is not at its best everywhere. Yours, too.
May I give you some advice? I would leave all the moralising alone for once.
As you always say, I only want to help. HaHa! You could start paying me for it. :D
Every solution to a problem creates its own new problems. No matter what it is, it will always go on like this, because there is no such thing as a final solution, no final "we are all satisfied now". I find it easy to see that this is so. Don't you?
You need not convince me that you are a good person. If you believe in yourself, it shall suffice. But as you mentioned it, why don't you publish those things and give some stories about the cookings and the encounters you have? Tell some real life stories? You think, they are uninteresting? Then make them entertaining. Ask those people from real life encounters funny/unusual questions and tell about it. I mean, why not?