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The fatal conceit is to believe we can create heaven on earth. People are imperfect and always will be.

Fully agreed :) Best to design or approach stuff based on the knowledge that people are different and imperfect.

that's obviously true. and more: anyone or any group of people who really thinks to be able to create a new kind of society, or better rules for our society is really naive or very young - or both. and the feedbacks he/them get from their "circle" of alike people are misleading, both the positive and the negative/conflict feedback.
I'd say also that only the adversarial relationships can build new rules with some chances to work.

When the root is the same, it's hard to change ;)

Beautifully written comment. And absolutely true regarding this niche "narrow-slice" community. We're going to be stuck in a cycle of incestuous (or cannibalistic) decentralism, like a snake eating it's own tail... unless we embrace the messiness of the world. Steemit is at least softening the boundaries on this, but it is hard!

I think it was @andrarchy who originally made the snake-tail analogy... just giving proper credit here.