The last few days has been filled with conversation about the future and what we can try to do now to make it better. What is 'better' is hard to say but one thing that is unanimous is that decentralization of control and unique individuals working together to create value are at the core. This place is filled with unique, filled with ideas, filled with talent and filled with people who care about where we are today and where we could be tomorrow. Despite our differing opinions on how to get there, we are unanimous in where there is, is a place where everyone has benefit, everyone has value.
Today, is the day I have been anticipating and dreading: We will visit Auschwitz.
If there is ever a place where we are able to get an understanding of what is possible under centralized control and what is possible when we start seeing each other as numbers rather than humans, this must be it. I do not know what I am going to find there nor what will find me and I feel I am likely going to distance myself from it in some way by viewing through the camera.
people working together can do amazing things and that is both of the most wonderful and the most terrible in nature. There are very few problems we as a global community are unable to overcome yet many that we are unable to overcome because we are unable to overcome one factor, division. The conflict between individuals and groups are both source of inspiration and innovation, as well as excuse to inflict suffering on those we disagree with, those we value less than ourselves.
I have talked about it before from my own perspective but after many discussions it is apparent. The people at Steemfest are decentralized individuals. Very few are living in their place of birth, they are partnered with people who are from other countries, their parents are often migrants, their children of mixed nationality.
Almost by default, they are people designed to search for individual control of their lives, people who are designed to live and thrive wherever they land and, those willing to value people based on what they bring to the table, not their color, race or creed. Steem is filled with hints of what the future could become.
I do not know what Auschwitz will mean to me, I do not know what feelings it will evoke or my reactions to some of the worst humanity has ever known, put on display. Our history is one filled with so much pain, suffering and hardship yet, we have also managed so much beauty, charity and love. We can do better than the pain, we can do more of the love.
Perhaps through our discussions, words and continual conflicts, we are negotiating a path to a future where one day years from no, generations and centuries from now, we have a solution, a community where we as people matter and people who understand that community matters. Whether we get there is not is less relevant than our attempt to get there and our actions now are the only way to make what we all want, reality.
We are the worst of it.
We are the best of it too.
Taraz
[ a Steem original ]