Hey my friend @halfjew22 I'm sorry but I must have missed your reply. I'm also really glad my words resonated with you. I think that in a world of a billion details intent is key and it's the one thing that can unify us all. An over emphasis on details has the danger of becoming akin to re-arranging the deckchairs on the Titanic.
At the moment I'm running my own I.T based business, nothing exciting but I would love to be able to support myself through writing and sharing my words. Hence why I find myself on steemit. How about yourself?
I completely agree that you can't argue with truths, unfortunately many appear to have been programmed to react to said truths with knee jerk emotional responses. Indeed within the minds of the P.C culture many are subconsciously equating discussions relating to freedom of speech with the far right! It's shocking to witness and equally a testament to mankinds fall from grace .. whoops I used a gender prenoun there!
It's great to run into people like yourself on here as well. I've upvoted your posts (I upvoted the one that's still live, along with one of your new posts) and I will take the time to absorb and comment later on as I'm running @musicmonday tonight. Thanks again!!
I was working full time and doing some consulting on the side as an Android developer. I've since quit that full time position in pursuit of working on my own ideas (you can check them out on my Dtube page and I'd really appreciate you ripping into them!) I've found Steemit to be good so far, but I'm finding so far that low energy / effort (my opinion, just my thoughts) posts find their way into more people's hands than those posts that take more effort and energy. I've seen this sentiment echoed throughout and marked off as "just how it goes" around here, so might explore building a Chrome plugin or something that allows for more "multidimensional" curation of content. You can see some of my feedback on Steemit here if you're interested.
I think you're well on your way to being able to support yourself through your words. I'm looking to do the same, as well as to create software to echo the things I write about. Maybe you'd be interested in joining along :)
It's sad, but I believe your usage of the word, "programmed", can't be more accurate. That truly seems like what's happening. However, I think we're finally seeing a movement to cut away the nonsense. That isn't to say that there aren't problems we need to solve, but I think there is a movement to reorient our values towards the problems that are most important that we solve the soonest.
HAHA let's resist the urge to make too much fun :P I'm not sure how those people form their opinion that get up in arms about peoplekind vs mankind, and I think it's utterly ridiculous to make the claim that that can be offensive in any way, but if we're going to solve some of these problems, we can't take any side. We must simply be objective.
It's fantastic to run into people like you as well. I've truly appreciated your writings and your response to my comment. Looking forward to continuing the conversation and seeing more of your content!
Best - Michael