But is it true that you never really know the value of what you have until you loose it? The African proverb says that a cow doesn't know what it's tail is used for till the day it is being cut-off.
Indeed it is not a good thing to have loss our decentralized autonomy and a system that supports closed relationship.

Nevertheless, I am very much optimistic that the dry bones shall rise again and the things we've loss to steem witness trail/persecution, we will recover it all.