The Genesis of Hive.
Hive, for us, has been like a chaotic love affair. One moment we hate it, the next moment we love it; it's been a very messy eight years for us with all this push and pull.
I've been harping on for years about how hive should be more about the content and not about the money; that words should meet soul, and soul should eventually change the platform.
But I'll be honest I never took my own advice.
I was never happy writing on hive.
I wrote here because I had to, in a way, sometimes to survive.
It was my escape I had fled to when the writers guild I was in before stepped over into the darkness -- a place where my soul would not let me follow.
So I stopped writing from the soul
And I found hive.
And hive was good -- and at times great.
When money was flowing people flocked to hive in their droves.
But it lacks the soul and vibrance and essence of what a web3 platform should look like -- one that titillates art with such ferocity that it has even the most hardened sceptic piling in to give it a play.
But that's not anyone's problem to solve I've realised.
For me to make any difference in this ecosystem I have to lead with my own words, transmute feeling into soul, and build the way I was born to do.
I am happy now.
Hive has actually become my home.
Not because of the post rewards, or the networking, or even the community -- which are all great things this place boasts -- but for the sacred ledger.
I've realised that Hive will be here long after I've been ground into dust and sent off as particles into the stars, and what I'm creating here will last lifetimes.
People will come to our ledger to remember, and that's sacred.
They will remember what was built here and revere at our Genesis.
How we were once a small group of people seeking more, seeking meaning, and how we took that essence and built out into the stars -- and try and capture that essence and use it for themselves.
For the hive ledger will exist for as long as computing exists.
And that is more than valuable.
I no longer see destitution for hive -- I foresee a great roadmap ahead; one written in the halls of the ancients.
They will talk about us for a millennia and longer.
We build now not for glory,
nor money
nor fame
We build because it's true.
just WOW !!!
see, it takes people like you to bring the flame, the soul, the heartbeat
and everything makes sense and everyone follows and understand what a brotherhood really is.
i believe in HIVE because it has a good star ( in astro )
but also because it has what any great community or movement need...
worshipers of the stars and passionate sunshines..people like you 🩷
I'm actually deeply realising that -- there are many people that love language here, many.
I'm hoping the brotherhood will serve as a beacon!
And then, others will find themselves within our beacon.
And become their own flame.
We are going to shine bright like a thousand suns.
The world has no idea what is coming :)
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Thou dost dream a bit much, methinks. Even the best of the ancient marvels, the pyramids, or the best of the modern ones, Hoover dam, won't last forever. If humanity were to disappear tomorrow, they would last thousands of years. But eventually nature would destroy them. The water itself would eventually destroy the dam, and the pyramids would be buried under sand once more, then also destroyed by water when the climate shifts, as it tends to do in that area every 10000 or so years. Hive won't survive anywhere near as long. The blockchain is only as good as the witnesses, and we don't even have all that many of them. The Hive ledger will exist as long as computing? Nay—only as long as the witnesses choose to keep it going. If they give it up, it will disappear about as fast as Geocities did, which was cached by even more servers than the Hive blockchain is written to, yet with few exceptions, it is nearly completely gone.
But everything in life and the universe is ephemeral, so this is actually ok and normal. We write to write. We write because we are writers. We write because we would write even if no one read what we wrote (and let's be honest, that's about all that reads most of us here). We write because we are in love with words, how they look and how they sound, and we fancy we might one day turn a phrase like the Bard. There is no other reason, at least not here, nor ultimately anywhere.
Thou dost dream too little, my good friend.
The system we live in needs souls. It takes, it extracts, it needs those souls to believe this is the only way for it to survive.
What is coming is new. And light years ahead of anything we've ever seen before. It will rip the ground right from underneath all that we've ever known.
Soon, on the horizon, our worlds will be shaken. We will no longer have to contract to survive. The new will take over the old and with it the old guard will slip away onto the horizon as if they never existed.
People will forget them eventually.
You cannot beat the system because it will consume you...
But what if you just decide not to use it anymore?
What if..
.. there's no need to?
What then?
This is why we build.
And for you, and people like you, dear friend, we opened up a Harmony channel in the brotherhood to mark these words..
Because this way of speaking is new to me, and I am young to the poetry style.
So share, and share well,
So people like me can learn.