Hey my friend and yes great points that concur with my own beliefs on these matters. Have you ever looked into the work of Richard Stallman and his free open source software projects (Gnu project)? Obviously this is just the work of Stallman and an opensource group of hackers/coders but it gives fascinating insight into what could be acheived if there was the will and and organised collective behind it.

I'm with you on the perspective that the cryptospace has sowed a seed of thought in the minds of the masses that could be manipulated in the future. But equally like you also say "All new systems of control attract new users first with the positives" and so there has existed a window of opportunity for people to make considerable amounts of money from said new system. Several people have actually ploughed that money into making further decentralised systems and there is also a crossover between the concept of "truth" and cryptos. Indeed there are many people involved in the crypto space that are hearing information they would never have normally listened to. It's my belief that this could have been a miscalculation and the entire concept of decentralisation combinded with truth is spreading faster than the powers that be comprehended. Certainly this is a technological race to the finish line!

Ultimately the future direction of humanity will simply come down to how much we want to reclaim our freedom? Indeed this world could change tomorrow if enough people wanted it to be so. We're the ones with the power in our hands, we just need to find a way to make those that have forgotten remember this fact. Too long have people been made to feel weak, powerless and isolated, this is a misperception that has trickled down into the subconscious.

"All new systems of control attract new users first with the positives....and then the negatives get injected in only later."

An excellent point and you can use the capitalist model (and of course the internet) as a prime example of the vaidity of that statement. When you look back at the sweetners the first generations in said capitalist model were given it's certainly a far cry from the system we now live under, the term "boiling frogs" springs to mind.

Ultimately one of the main problems is that many of us want the same things but are simply divided on the finer details and ways to achieve these aims. We need to stop arguing amongst ourselves and infating our ego's over details, this is akin to re-arranging the deckchairs on the Titanic and it does little to help us. With the best will in the world we all prisoners of perception and life experience and so we all have slightly different interpretations of the truth. But if at it's most simplistic core the "truth" is that the majority of us want a world based on love, respect, fairness and equality, well then that's an intent and collective intent is a powerful force. Unfortunately it's aso a force that has been stolen from us through division and the electronic thought ghettos of mainstream social media.

Joining steemit and finding an avenue to write, comment and interact with people like yourself has given me a renewed hope for the direction of humanity and long may it continue!!

Thank you for the link @lavater I was unaware of this so I will take a good look at it.