Right now it feels as if we are in a ***Feral*** stage of society and community. We are loaded and hyped up on fear, on caution, and frozen in place like a deer caught in headlights. 

We are afraid of the smallest noise, of speaking because we may be found in our hiding place. It takes time, trust, effort, and help to overcome the feral stage. I hope we are able to quickly pass through this stage, and for a new society to grow from the lessons of the past and today.

Social media has brought us closer together yet created a certain distance between us. People only posting 'perfect' pictures and expensive lifestyle for the sake of keeping up appearances and not to feel left out. Cyber bullying on the rise. I just feel like we talk about it soo much but nothing has been done in the real sense. Perhaps as you said, it won't happen overnight. Patience is key

> Power goes to the owners - so we must all take ownership.

Yep.  Good and bad.  

From where I sit, I see signs of hope in the unrest that is taking place here in the US.  I was a teenager when the Voting Rights Act of 1964 was signed.  It left a mark.  It didn't make things perfect, but there was a fundamental change.  55 years later I think I see the signs of another fundamental change.  I certainly hope so.

Which doesn't in anyway diminish the position of Hive in the landscape of humanity.  It is a chance to 'rise up' and move to another level of awareness and ownership.  People here get it-they, we, are responsible for what we become.  Will it be driven by fear and greed or love and tolerance?  I strongly suspect that both extremes will come into play but which one will dominate?  I know what I'm hoping for.

Thanks for another one of those great 'thinking posts'.  Always appreciated.

Beautiful words. Simple clarification of complex issues. What the community needs to understand and thrive. It remains for people to become ready to take responsibility ...

Yes I would say it's hypocritical, but it's easy when we are so distracted and disconnected. It's crazy that we are in an era were we all have access to so much and so many people. Yet so many people feel alone. 

Block chain will change all facets of economics. Hive is an attention economy. Where the more you contribute, and the more attention you get. The more you are rewarded. Like a social media platform, only it's not the company deciding where to place advertisements and who to pay because they bring traffic. It's the shareholders.

This is what makes hive special. Sure there are communities that have formed around certain projects. But generally the technology of blockchain allows for trustless transactions. The blockchain doesn’t care who you are. So money can be made by everyone. 

On hive we see the next step, not the technology defines the community, but it’s the other way around. Communities form around a central topic, idea, dream, hobby etc. And the value of that community is tokenized. 

Community has always had an economic component, it just wasn’t registered and readable before. Now on hive, for the first time any community can know its own value in a currency that can be traded for any other currency. 

That to me is astonishing and the greatest experiment of our time. 

It takes a community to raise a block-chain :-) 

It seems so easy to get by in life without a community, but that's an illusion. the people who can get by in life completely cut off of others is a rare occurrence (although I did watch a video on one such family living in Siberia) Sure, we like to think we can, some of us, but that's just not wanting to admit that we need each other in way form or another.

I'm not an outgoing person - a true introvert - but I do enjoy being a part of the Hive community. 

I did not answer your question in your previous post coz I did not know how to frame what I am learning from Hive. I guess I was trying to say that I also value being part of the community but did not know which angle to approach it from.

I am not sure how this platform will unfold in the immediate or distant future. As readers mentioned in those comments, I also value the sense of community and all the benefits that it provides. My initial interest was definitely to earn crypto but like others, i seem to enjoy the interaction and the sense of togetherness. It is still not normal for me to have these interactions with people unknown to me and without any previous connections. But, it is happening. Seems this is the future and hope this community is safe irrespective of the crypto price.

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Yes it is true my friend... Community always makes big role...