Telestai

The changing worldview held by many in Western Culture presents philosophical challenges for the world. Platforms allowing creative expression use their position to censure and shape what is consumed by the public. This has narrowed the presented viewpoints significantly, compromising both the ability for readers and observers to be challenged on their intellectual positions and enlarging the political divide within society. Cryptocurrency — a force that has financially liberated — has the capacity to perform the same function for media if harnessed in the correct way. A path toward an ecosystem that supports freedom whilst remaining within the bounds of socially accepted behaviour is required to be paved.

Unfortunately, the community's persistent striving for full decentralization ignores key elements of human social needs; primarily, that the absence of all oversight is not the utopian ideal it is made out to be. Rather, human social needs require and operate on accepted guidelines, which in essence is a form of communal oversight that creates the platform for civilized engagement.

I propose that the mores of society identify that full decentralization — that is, the belief that no oversight over an individual should exist by any external party — is neither achievable in the means the blockchain community insists nor reflective of how human civilization has operated for millennia. Rather, humans interact within a framework of acceptable behaviors, conventions, and habits as conceived of by the community they exist in. These communities work together to create, set, evolve, and enforce these values that people are held to.

In layman's terms, communities self-regulate based on the worldview they hold to, which is ever-changing and evolving according to the people that live within and interact with it. The social contract that exists in society — that people consent to surrender some of their freedoms for the protection of an overarching authority and their promise to uphold as well as maintain the existing social order — actively supports these mores and worldview. It is supposed to intercede as an impartial and neutral arbiter for the people.

The internet has long been an environment of liberation for humanity. Although politics and big business have infiltrated the space for their own purposes, blockchain provides the ability to liberate it once more to ensure the freedom it has always promised remains so. Additionally, the nefarious fringe that utilizes it for ugly purposes can be kept at bay and away from those wishing to exist in a cyber ecosystem that holds itself to civilized standards.