Love your post. I think you have much truth presented here, thank you.

What I'd like to add, is that I hope people are aware, that there are in fact people with an Agenda about what you believe, and they will upvote their own content via outside bots, and these bots/people will make a post appear more valuable than it really is. It is really hard to see it happening, it is only when you get involved with a cause that sits on the other side of the fence, then you see that honest discussion does not exist.

So I challenge you, everyone, to take the devil's advocate in controversial arguments and find out what kind of resistance you find. For my part I discussed the Flat Earth. I know most people's reaction to that, and I don't know the truth, what I do know is the information we have on the topic is far from a done deal. There are many strange inconsistencies that bother my mind, and when arguing with people here on steemit about the topic, the first thing that happened was I was downvoted for simply asking the questions, presenting the other side of the story. My arguments where not met with facts presented to destroy the ideas I had, but belittlement, name calling, and pseudoscience. There were attempts to talk over my head, there where attempts to make me feel stupid. But what I didn't find was proof. What I didn't find was a convincing argument.

Now I am not saying for you to get involved in that discussion, though I find it infinitely fascinating what people take for truth without truly getting involved and just accept on face value. But I'm sure there are other topics that are equally taboo, that are equally interesting to engage in should we find ourselves reading them.

So remember, what is popular isn't always true. And what is popular may only be popular because it is profitable for someone to have you believe it. And those that are profiting are never going to tell you the truth, they will tell you what they hope will keep you thinking how they want you to think. Those forces are out there, and they are insidious about how they go about it. Placing ads with cute children/animals and pretending it is just an accident. Maybe it is, but keep in mind that paying a highly followed users here to place ads is well within the realm of possibilities.