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# Technology cannot fix broken hearts and minds. 

You can give the most advanced technological gizmo to a fool and he will find a way to abuse it, causing untold pain. Also, you can design a system which never considers the end goal of unity which also delivers untold pain. With no ultimate goal of unity, we exist inside a system that has us pitted against each other.

# We need to build a unity program. 

I don't know what it is, what it looks like or how it works, but a unity program is what we need right now. All these complicated rules are making people break. Worse than that, a division of this community is occurring. I have seen this all before. The splitting up into 2 distinct camps is the first stage. We are in a system that was designed with good intentions but didn't consider the negative effects on human psychology.

We need a unifying program, something that does not pit us against each other.  We need to start backwards and ask the question: "what program would bring people together?"

If you have people choose between Steemit and Facebook, I bet most of us are on the same side. How do we translate that into here? Most religions and intentional communities have things that bond people together. Religions have the same deity they worship and most ecovillages have rules about not using petroleum products. Those things bind those particular humans together. 

In here what binds us together? I'm an atheist, so I'm not going to have much in common with a devout Christian. There are a ton of different kinds of people in here. The only two things we all have in common are: money and a desire to build a decentralized social media platform. It's obvious that fighting over monetary rewards is leading nowhere fast. So, what does that leave us with? 

# Do we need to create a Decentralization God?

The system within here doesn't unite us in a common goal. It's fractured and mired with countless rules and sub-rules. It's designed for fragmentation, highly specific rules, math and it does not have a holistic approach. It was not designed with the end goal of unity. This is a huge deal.

Reflecting us is like reflecting 10,000 splintered images. What can we do as entire group to strengthen our commitment to a decentralized future with Steemit leading the way? 

Conflict is not bad, but when the algorithm and those who construct it have never built a real live community full of human beings, we need to take a really serious look at how it is being built and what tools are used for it. 

# Why is there not a unity application within Steemit? 

Why has no attention been given to devising a way to bring people together? Do we need to create a "Decentralization God" so that we can all have the same thing to worship? I would guess that we do. We need something because otherwise we're going to rip each other's heads off. You think I'm being overly dramatic? Think again. Most intentional communities, both online and offline fail. The same can be said for most startups. They have an abysmally low success rate. Many of us have been inside communities that have failed, and they all seem to follow the road of first splitting up into two camps. This is a sign that something drastic needs to change. Vote canceling sounds like more warfare to me. A reimagined system is needed.

I'm going to think about something we can do because if the the 2 camps get more entrenched, this is very very damaging. I don't want to choose a side, but my lizard brain sure does want to. It's the flaw within every human being who has emotions. It's how we were designed. We are designed, by biology to survive. We don't like going it alone. And when leaders leave, don't say a word, we get frightened. This is just how most humans operate. We feel like we've been left out in the dark woods to starve. 

Then, a big, bad voice comes to us. This voice used to frighten us, as we've seen this big voice before. But the more we hear the big bad voice, the less scared of it we become. There's no other voice to compare it to, so we start to become friendly with the big voice that used to scare us in the past.

# Leaders need to communicate and not choose sides.