D-Day + 81...The Generals lay out their ideas...chapter 7..(or chapter 81, depending on how you look at things)

"Right lets get serious" The C-in-C said to the Generals, "Give me your strategies..".

General Sycophant spoke first.

"Whatever you think's best sir, you have my support."

The Commander passed over General Sycophant, without bothering to indulge him, nothing productive ever came from it.

General Nihilist spoke second.

"We can't win in Steemit. We aren't big enough.
We either stay quiet and build up 100,000 steem or we quit and try to build another way.
General Sycophant could use his expertise in this area to great advantage, if we stay and suck some whale cock.
By my calculations, we'll be in a position of real influence anywhere between 29 to 157, years.
...Maybe sooner if we ditch all the fighting, say nice things, and bot the fuck out of everything.... but I bet even the bots will fuck us over...".

General Ethical spoke next.

"We have to keep fighting, sir!!! What else is there to do? Make money elsewhere and have a fun life? I never signed up for a fun life sir, no siree.
If it doesn't involve blood sweat and lot's of banging my head against a brick wall, I'm not interested.
We can change it all from within, with gentle persuasion, sound argument, and logical explanation.
It might take some time - and suck lots of energy out of us- but it's better than partying and enjoying all the nice things in life."

General Non-Ethical spoke next.

"Whats the fucking point? Why not scam it here as much as possible with fake accounts, take what we can, and fuck 'em all? Take the money and run is the only sensible option in a place that is stacked against your stupid ethical behavior.
Playing by ethical rules in place that has non, is just downright fuckin' stupid.

General Code- is- law spoke next.

"Everything is perfectly designed to get ahead through playing politics and mutual fellatio. It is not designed to win through merit or hard work, or even honest dialogue, so there is no logical rationale to pursue such strategies.

The Commander in chief listened carefully to each Generals perspective, and sat silently. Thinking.

Thinking for about 1 year and 9 months, actually...
"So, Gentleman..... we have some decisions to make."

C-inC:

"General Code-is law, if we got into Steeminc HQ, could you change the code to make it more ethically biased."

General code-is-law:

"Yes sir, that could be done. We could also build a new ecosystem on top of steem, by using @shepz1 transparency coin.
Truth and ethics have been shown to have more value than sophistry.
I've analyzed trends , and it would indicate that we are now heading back in the direction of objective reality.
After the last hundred years of non logical systems and thought processes in society, it seems we are looking for rational.
Sir, I have thirty seven separate reports of motivational speakers all cancelling their speaking tours, and this would confirm my analysis.
It seems that they're more motivated to spend time on their private islands, and enjoy the fruits of there 'inspiration tours' of the last decade or so..
Over the last 6 years people have started to ask them questions at their events. It hasn;t gone down well.
One speaker bludgeoned a guy to death with his complimentary water bottle, just because he asked him something about reality..
Anyway, there's no logical reason to think a coin based in truth and ethical behavior would not be more valuable than a coin based in a corrupted 'might is right', oligarchical system.

C-inC:

"General Nihilist, do you think we could win the war by fighting Steem from outside the system?"

General Nihilist

"We couldn't lose more than we've lost already, whether you measure it in time or income. I mean, you spent some time making the avatars for each of us, on this post, but yesterday you posted 'is steemit down?', and received more rewards for that, than a 3 hour piece of work.
In a ecosystem who's value metric is not connected to anything- except coding logic, whats the fucking point?
It's a bit shit here, to be honest.
We should never have let General Ethical conduct operations earlier in the war, if you asked – I told you it wasn't gonna work.."

C-inC:

"General Ethical, how could we win the war by fighting your good fight outside of Steem?

General Ethical

"Well sir, we could 'dis' Steem everywhere, all over the internet - with truth and rational explanation..
We could spend time showing the world how flawed it is, before they made the mistake of signing up. With Gab's Dissenter now online, we could highlight it all very easily and allow the world to join the debate, without joining the Steem ecosystem.
That might crash steem if we really tried.
It's win win, sir.
We fight the good fight and show the truth to the world, or no one listens to us , and the steem we have goes up in value, and we can then use the money for bigger causes.
We might be able sell pieces to the media too, like your dissection of the white paper.
I'm sure crypto journals somewhere will pay you at least $15 for that report you did, sir.
What was it called?
Oh yes the whitepaper and the pile of crap it is, 'only suitable reading for 12 year olds with learning difficulties and the naivety that only comes from the self deluded'.
Yes sir, I think if you offer that around, we could make some dollars from that.
It's not like we'll make anything on steemit for publishing it here, is it?
Spreading truth is always the right thing to do.

C-inC:

And you, General Non-Ethical, what do you think?

General Non-Ethical

I recon we could scam loads off the naive people in this place. Or we could agree to be paid off for silence, they'd fall for that one, if we make enough noise.
It's all about getting what you can out of the rewards pool at the end of the day - by any means necessary as the commies love to say... fuck everyone.
After all ...you can't steal something that doesn't belong to anyone, can you?
We could exploit that to the hilt. Milk it for all it's worth.
For once, sir.... I find myself agreeing with General Ethical. We now find ourselves in win- win, position.
I like those odds.

The C-inC was silent again.( but only for 10 minutes this time).

"I've decided what we will do!" He shouted.

"Sir?" , Everyone said together, leaning forward...

"Yes," The Commander said " We'll watch another episode of @shepz1 adventures, shall we? - I like them!"

"Hurrah," They all shouted. Thinking things really tired them out.
"Sir,?" One of the generals, asked "Why have you changed uniforms?"

"I've booked a cam show with a hottie I came across... and she says she really like's this uniform.
If I wear it, I only have to pay 6 TPY a minute!!!"