I've spent the past decade working in bars, and I agree with your analogy for the most part; and every social setting has dynamics which could be compared with others.
Bars are by nature a late night entertainment and not to be visited every day but the major difference (I hope) between being here on Hive and being in a bar is honesty. People go out to a bar or club to pretend to be someone their not or at the very least put on an act in the hope of having fun and if lucky getting laid.
Do you think that Hive is just a market to sell a persons writing or is there a chance it could be something more than that?
Hive is full of these people, but they generally don't last long - much like this type in long-term relationships - reality leaks.
much, much more hopefully. It is just a content delivery database at heart, it can deliver just about anything. I am hoping that the major usecase will be tokenizing pre-existing communities and games - empowering them in ways they hadn't been able to prior. Free transactions help a lot in this :)
I really hope you're right my friend and you're so accurate reality does leak out and after a while a person cannot manage to keep up their facade.
The notion of empowering pre-existing communities and people is the best route and hopefully the most probable over the next few years, I completely agree.