Although you pretty much had me at "cookers and hocaine," I really had to chuckle at this.

The interesting (and sad) thing is that Steemit came along as this brave new social experiment and like pretty much every such thing, it ends up emulating "life." It's just another microcosm representation of The Whirled.

Which of course brings into question the underlying sanity (or lack of?) of those of us who sincerely believe there is a better way. There may be the traditional elitist "1%" but just how many people outside our own "weirdo freak" 1% actually give a flying flip about whether or not there's a "better way?" They just want their Big Macs, their beer, their DingDongs and football on Sunday. These things that matter to US — like consciousness, social change and whatever else — don't even register as a slightly annoying pebble in their boots.

Of course, Steemit is a grand experiment in "Greed Mismarketing." Here we have a unique, somewhat censorship resistant, predominantly "alt" thinking, multifaceted social content platform. And what do people do, to bring people here to participate in this "Brave New World?"

COME TO STEEMIT AND MAKE LOTS OF MONEY!!!

Color me cynical, but that's fucked up. It's short sighted, greedy, needy, desperate and a whole lot of other adjectives best left behind.

"Yeah but if we didn't talk about the money, nobody'd show up!"

Oh, they'd show up. Slowly. Organically. But of course that would require "someone" to show patience and restraint in a world that's fueled by 140-character soundbytes; people who think "TL;DR" could be applied to the new "longer" tweets.

Sorry, had to rant on your rant!