Obviously instinctive behavior mechanisms failed to cope with the new circumstances on the steem blockchain which vultures unavoidably produced, exactly the same as at it's very dawn.
There is evidence that the creators of the steem blockchain, the steemit inc. brotherhood, promptly used their new weapon skills to kill not only the game, but also fellow members of their brotherhood as well.
Dan Tha Man, the Prometheus of the steem blockchain, who learned to preserve fire, used it to roast his brothers.
By all indications the problem started with the sudden mushrooming of stake during a ninja-mining expedition, at a rate 'unprecedented in evolutionary history' the steem blockchain was launched.
The growth of the steem blockchain, too, followed an exponential curve. Is it unreasonable to assume that at this explosive rate, which so widely over-shot its mark, something has gone wrong?
More precisely, that the lines of communication between the old brotherhood and the new brother- and sisterhoods, were not developed sufficiently to guarantee their harmonious interplay and hierarchic co-ordination.
The evidence indicates, as we have seen, a dissonance between the reactions of the new brother- and sisterhoods and the old brotherhood. Instead of functioning as integral parts in a hierarchic order, they lead a kind of agonised co-existence.
The rider has never gained complete control of the horse, and the horse asserts it's whims in the most objectionable ways. Moreover, the stirrups and reins by which the rider is meant to control the horse are inadequate.
Both horse and rider are very much alive to one another and to their environments, yet communication between them is limited. Both derive information and act upon it in a different way.
Are we condemned to this state of 'controlled schizophrenia'?
To go on preaching sweet reason to an inherently unreasonable old brotherhood is, as history shows, a fairly hopeless enterprise.