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> ## *“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”* **― Henry Thomas Buckle**

Although there was no shortage of new and fresh ideas surfacing in the Libertarian circles in the past years, there were some however that wanted to focus on personal attacks and witch-hunt expeditions.

Often you would see them trying to drive the conversation away  from new thoughts and concepts, and try to reduce them into popularity contests about which “celebritarian” to attack next. 

Gossip was starting to replace the festival of interesting ideas.



Instead of theories or plans, a bulk of the focus seemed to be canalized towards complaining about other people.

*“This girl doesn’t represent the Libertarian philosophy”, “This guy is a fake”*...etc.

Keiser was right, from the outside it’s kinda looks like *Lord of the Flies* sometimes.

It was a really sad thing to see. After all, If you don’t like how someone conducts his interviews, why don't you make your own? 

Don’t like how that girl makes silly jokes in that podcast? Start your own podcast.

Don’t like how that classy guy in a bow tie dresses like “a sell-out”? Don’t watch. 

Start your own show, build your own media company, write your own books and dress like a *non sell-out*. 

No one is stopping you.

But those things are hard, they require a lot of work.

Witch-hunting is easy.

The irony however is that the witch-hunters look just like the “parasite class” they loath oh so badly.

They refuse to create anything of value, yet they always focus on other people. They try to get everyone at everyone's throat while pretending to be looking out for... Well, the greater good.

They pretend that they are looking out for the community but in reality all they do is to make everyone fight with everyone and try to get everyone to rally against an inner enemy.

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Exactly as the politicians do. After all, they're only looking out for everyone, right?

They say that 4% percent of people are sociopaths, and every community has one. 

> *“Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky. They don't pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens.”* **― George Carlin**

After all, just like in real life 20 percent of people bring the 80% of value. And the opposite is true as well, 20% of people bring the 80% of drama.

And we sure as hell had our fair share of witch hunts before, the war on boobs, the war on whales, on specific figures… If you look you will see the very same individuals trying to stir hate for months on end.

Are they actually  looking out for the community? Or are they operating just like your run-of-the-mill politician?

I don't know. But one thing is clear:

They always point at a group of people and say it’s their fault. And that is no recipe for success.

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The good news, is that this an amazing community of go-getters. Just look at the success of steemfest or how people get together any time an issue arises. It's truly beautiful.

We are in a community where you wake up and find messages saying “Some fellow steemians got stuck in an airport, what can we do to help?” And the community more often than not responds.

So many people have realized that their self-interest and the growth of steem is one of the same, and at the same time they're all enjoying this beautiful experiment that has the potential of changing lives.

Some people choose to move forward, and some however only care about dragging people down. It's like real life, it happens.

Don’t mind the witch-hunters, don’t mind their wooden stakes and pitchforks. 

They always existed and always will exist.

They will keep changing targets hoping to get everyone at everyone’s throat.

After all, the road to success is filled with these things, but ask any successful person in the world and they’ll tell you. Complaining is not a strategy.

Complaining doesn’t get you anywhere but down. In fact it’s the single most direct path to losing in life and intoxicate relationships. It's the perfect guide to leading a miserable life.

But then again, you can’t really expect a good advice from a witch hunter.

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