The beginning

Heeey Peeps! So When I came into the blockchain space through the Rize platform, I had no clue where this road was going or even what blockchain is. What is this animal people keep referring to as blockchain. Is it a bird? Plane? Binary code masquerading round town as Jesus or Moses?

It’s not the easiest thing to do when you come into the world of blockchain not only from the user perspective, but also from a more literary approach to the world. The numbers just don’t make sense to most literary people or visual learners in general.

After months of trying to navigate through this space risking life and limb not to mention potential stalking and harassment suits (thanks @jbrukh for not filing official charges) I finally located a very interesting blog listing a group of really thorough visual thinkers who present information in a more physical manner.

Not to slap you IT guys in the face with your code, but it stinks. It makes no real sense to people like myself. I understand y’all have a great need for the code in order to communicate commands with computers, but when you want to convey these ideas to people like myself and average users you need to take a step into a different direction. As much as I complain about programmers today, it was in fact a programer with a different sort of an outlook who was finally able to introduce me to methods that would open my eyes to a picture of blockchain that had previously eluded me.

Blockchain, Crypto Currency, and decentralized media are essentially newborn infants when it comes to being introduced to the moral majority of our populous. We need to be mindful now more than ever not to repeat the missteps of our forefathers when getting our feet wet in this new society we wish to build.

Most modern day governments and agencies look to Cesare Beccaria when attempting to define or divine a new societal structure. The one mistake I believe we have made repeatedly is the very same ideology we consistently fail to observe when it comes to establishing a governmental agency.

Beccaria often referred to the need for government to be written and conveyed to the people in common language. He elaborated and referred to the common language of the common man. He intimated that it would be impossible for a common man to integrate themselves into a society wherein the laws were written in language they couldn’t understand.

Being well versed in language myself, I’ve found this territory of this new “final frontier” we shall call it nearly impossible to navigate. Even though my grasp of the english language is far superior to the “common” man, my grasp of technology or IT terminology is not nearly as good. Considering that the common man also does not possess significant grasp of this kind of terminology, we have to be mindful now more than ever that we are not in fact creating a world in which we are expecting people to function but do not understand the language of the land.

Understanding is key to conveying or communicating a message effectively. If one does not understand the language in which the message is spoken let alone the perspective from which the sender of the message is coming from, no matter how well thought out the idea may be, the receiver of the information will not be able to assimilate the information because they lack the language skills to convert the information into a usable text. This is where we find ourselves in the world we are attempting to build.

I often hear people from IT saying that blockchain and crypto currency are simple ideas. In truth, they are not lying. It is still the delivery of the message where the idea is becoming lost for most people.

Often we are hearing about Crypto and decentralization being introduced to underdeveloped countries. We are also hearing complaints from the persons who reside in these areas that they feel as though the tech is being thrust upon them and that they are being converted to a way of living that they “didn’t want” very much in the same way that religions were thrust upon people.

While this particular approach or comparison may in fact not be correct from the programer level or perspective, this is definitely how the ideas being presented are coming across to the people because of the lack of understanding being conveyed. They feel as though we have just shown up and thrust our ideas upon them telling them that they are better ideas than the ones that were once in place without first conveying intent or relative understanding of how these things will apply in an improvement in their physical world.

By not conveying intent, we have created fear and distrust. As much as it would be easy to suggest that it is the people who have the issue and that there isn’t anything wrong with what we are doing…we are in fact the cause of the blockades we are confronting.

How now do we explain our position to a people who are not just uneducated in the ways of technology but have also been indoctrinated with fear of us and our ideas? How do we overwrite the past in a way that people will be able to trust our perspective and our knowledge?

It is quite the conundrum we have found ourselves in. Which problem do you fight first? The fear? Or do we fight the language barrier?