There is no spoon

Yes, we all know that steemit has taken a hit with the hard fork, there were some teething issues as we made the transition AND for some the transition seemed unnecessary. Our voting power/mana and Resource Credits were reset to 0% no matter how much you had stashed in your kitty, meaning we had to build these % powers back up before being able to be active on the platform again in any meaningful way. i know there is more to it than these simple points but its more than well covered if you search the current articles on the platform so i wont delve too far into it...

I will be the first to admit im not super tech inclined, so when it comes to the details of how things go wrong on the platform and blockchain etc. im pretty clueless , well maybe not completely clueless, but i know "i dont know jack". However what i am more than adequately equipped to observe , comprehend , and explain is the hooman condition and behaviors.

Lets start with a basic understanding here, what i will be describing can be applied to many different scenarios and should be seen as a "governing factor" in these kinds of situations. So if we observe this data, understand the constructs, then extrapolate we can gain a greater understanding of what is occurring and why.

To begin with we have people who are pissed because things aren't going right, this anger, frustration, ect. is looking for an outlet. Then we have the people who are responsible for things going smoothly, who are doing their best to.... you guessed it, make things go smoothly. A pretty simple equation really, the first group will be pissed at the second group, but let delve a little deeper.

Red Team Vs Blue Team

As much as it may feel like it to some, the people responsible did not have the intention to disrupt peoples lives, to cause negative emotions in others, make u have a bad day or anything like that. Sadism ? Schadenfreude? not likely...

Schadenfreude: When pleasure is derived from the misfortunes of others. A German word which literally translated means 'harm-joy.' That is, the feeling of joy/pleasure when seeing another fail or suffer misfortune.

Why not sadism or Schadenfreude? Well, because the repercussions of the action would have adverse effects on themselves , that is, people being angry etc. and expressing negative emotion in their general direction... that would be more along the lines of masochistic behavior, but i digress. The take away here should be that the action was not deliberate.

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Now lets get into some of the fun hooman condition stuff....

Fundamental Attribution Error

The long and short of this construct is that the way we perceive behaviors, traits etc in ourselves and others is quite different. When others are not performing adequately we can easily slip down that slippery slope into thinking that it is because they are lazy, greedy, incompetent, etc. While when we are performing poorly we attribute this to things like having a bad nights sleep, life stress effecting our life, etc.

Others are perceived as having internal attributes which make them act perform poorly , while for us it is "external factors" which cause us to perform poorly.

Fundamental Attribution Error

Social Identity Theory

This is based in "Us Vs Them" mentality. We design groups based on particular variables, those in the "in group" are with us, on our team, and those in the "out group" are those against us, the opposing team.

What we tend to find is that in these situations we exaggerate the "good traits" of the in group and also exaggerate the "negative traits" of the out group. While this construct is observed in extreme cases such as racism, nationalism, religious division, etc. It can also be observed in smaller social groups throughout hoomanity.

Social Identity Theory

Taken even further with the added variable of limited resources for groups to fight for is Realistic Conflict Theory, which was outlined in the Robbers Cave Experiment, but we wont dive into that one in this article.

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So even just scratching the surface we can see that these constructs are at play in the current state of "Hard Fork recovery mode" and how it is part of the hooman condition to gravitate to these forms of expression from both sides of the argument. How we choose to express ourselves in regards to this can also have a detrimental effect on the emotional outcome produced.

Its easy to just open fire on the opposing "team" and it may even give us some form of relief from the pent up emotions we have regarding the situation.... but lets look at what is really happening when we do that.

Analogy Time

If someone its trying to diffuse a bomb in a room full of people and those people standing by are yelling and shouting at them to diffuse the bomb.... is adding stress helping diffuse the bomb ? If the person diffusing the bomb stops to yell back at those yelling at them.... does the bomb get diffused faster?

Bomb

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So What Can We Do About It?

Nothing. And that is the point, there is nothing we can do about the situation which will be of benefit. Our squabbling over what should have been/could have been, the impact of the situation, etc. does not fix anything. Raising the stress values in ourselves and others is unhealthy for everyone and completely counterproductive.

There is nothing we can do about the situation, BUT there is something we can do to feel better... something else. if we are not able to be part of the solution and we are only being part of the problem, then leave it be. Find something else which will be beneficial to yourself. Work on another project for a while, do some recreational activities, take a hike or go to the beach, eat a burrito, watch the sun set.... so many things which are so much better than stressing ourselves out over something we cant do anything about.... so why worry ?

Why Worry?

The people who are involved in fixing things are doing their best to rectify the issues as quickly as they can, they didn't do it deliberately to mess us up, they are suffering the same issues we are. Acts of anger and aggression are not going to get things done any faster, in fact it is probably just going to make things take longer than they should.

Conclusion

We spend so much of our lives engaging in unhealthy and unproductive activities, for the most part we can be unaware of the constructs which guide us to these actions. If we are aware of these traits within ourselves we have the ability to start making the changes necessary to curb our behavior to something more productive and less stressful, not only for ourselves but those we interact with.

Life can be a bit of a roller coaster, and yeah when accidents happen it can suck. But if we chose to unpack in the state of misery we will only perpetuate it further. Detach.... uncouple from the negative and counterproductive, find better places to spend the energy. When we cant change the situation we are in we can choose to change how we perceive it, and when we cant change how we choose to perceive the situation, we can remove ourselves from the situation and come back to it later fresh and ready to roll...