Thanks for sharing your insight into what is already hapenning, and your vision into where it can keep going. I am very new to steemit (just over a week now) and what I love about it is that regardless of what else is hapenning (fomo shit posting etc) if your own vision of what you want, is clear, then you can follow, and thus perpetuate that through like minded people.

You walk out into the backyard, there is a rose in full bloom, and your dog has also just recently laid a big steamy one. Which of these two things do you want to look at ? That's a choice, but it can only be a choice if there are roses to look at, even if it's just one rose, growing out of a pile of big steamy ones :)

That's what I look for. Case in point; I just read your comment on @whatamidoing 's post, and resonating with your opinion, then came to check out your posts, and found this gem of an article.

Monetizing memes on dmania or through decentmemes is powerful, its hard even for me to understand how powerful memes are, they are the majority of posts on the internet anymore.

In another few years, school text books will probalby just be pages of memes, lol.

Once in a while, when I want to have a discussion.. I will pay an upvote bot to get the views and the conversation that a large upvote can provide.

Again, choices. You make it clear in your article that you're not personally a big fan of bots, but you don't let that bias over rule the value that they can provide, but you wouldn't have that choice if other people weren't pursuing their ambitions.

That's what I love about this platform. If you just focus on what you want, which seems to be a self perpetuating community of idea and knowledge sharing (me too) then that's what you'll grow. All that's needed to begin with, is to be clear about what it is that you want, then just follow the sign posts that point in that direction.

No force can resist an idea whose time has come.

Amen.