Many of us don't actually value what we are here.
As our biggest institutions are bought out by billionaires and governments and use their artists to weave nonsense around the citizenry -- we have a real chance to make a difference.
What we have here is a sacred ledger. One that cannot be changed, altered, or misaligned from truth. What we post here may be read by our grandparents grandparents as other institutions fade and die into the dust.
But we distract ourselves with rubbish posts begging for the rewards that come out afterwards; with no foresight to who or what will read our posts after the first day.
We really have something special here, but until we get out of the phase of seeing it as a token factory then we really wont achieve anything here. We really wont.
You can't have a platform for artists that doesn't cater to the artist. This isn't aligned with incubating art, it's aligned with incubating wealth.
In my eyes art should speak true to wealth; in some ways art is diametrically opposed to wealth. In the past it has toppled generational wealth -- think the Renaissance.
Here at Hive we have a true opportunity to create a chymical wedding of sorts; that which should be directly opposed but actually works in unison.
When that balance is struck, that's when the real gold materialises.
But we won't get there on the path we are on right now.
Look at every community. There are no esteemed artist spots; no elevation of the art. Only curation, and money -- everything primed to farm the rewards.
There has been nothing of significance posted here in years. Nothing anyone off hive really wants to read, no. I'm sure there are artists that do this but they are buried amongst thousands of other dead soulless posts in the void.
Well, worry not struggling artist -- I'm coming to find you.
Maybe of you will have noticed that I've started The Flame.
It's a community for artists that would rather die than have AI do their work for them -- they burn with spirit and reflect on their lives and create art with raw intensity.
But raw fire must be tamed before it can be used. And this is what I'm going to do.
Our next stage is to connect with Twitter. I'm going to make an account for The Flame. One solely for our community that inspires our best artists.
I'm not going to connect with the soulless web3 bozo's who see money over art, no, I'm going to be connecting with real artists -- people that I used to network with in the past and show them the very real possibility of what we have here.
Fire does need to be tamed though, and I'm going to train my artists to write for an audience rather than write for people on hive.
Command presence, speak raw -- title and shift posts so that people will be beckoned in to see what is written rather than just more spam to filter out as they endlessly scroll through their feeds with glaze in their eye.
Slowly but surely the flame will attract the right people to its presence. Those that see only money will be discouraged; but those that see soul, presence, and fire will burn bright with passion and be drawn into us, be curious about the flame; the wonder too great.
And we will grow. Not with wealth, but with passion.
And you will see what can be achieved when that happens. When an artists community starts elevating art.
You will see.
Oh yes you will.