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CodeTRUCKER:
I am probably unqualified to comment on the thread as I have no idea what TED is, right (yes, I live in the bottom of a well)?  Well, maybe not.  Given I have no knowledge of TED, I can offer a different (not necessarily better) perspective.  

Over the years I have come to know a bunch of you folks and have come to value your intelligence, wisdom and wit.  The point is what I know of TED has only been gained from this thread.  Here is what I have gleaned from your comments...

* We are being required to "see" the Emperor's New Clothes by a mindless mass-mob manipulated by crafty diatribe.
* There is nothing new under the sun.  Great thinkers throughout history have eschewed fads of this ilk.  If it truly had intrinsic value it would have been seized upon long ago.
* So, I am not the only one seeing a new "Kinder-garten," eh?  Wally-World better lay in a LARGE supply of brown shirts.
* Although the previous bullet is tongue-in-cheek and a bit frivolous, this is really no laughing matter.  Recall how the French Bourgeoisie was incited to riot against Aristocracy which in turn gave us seventeen years of horrible blood-letting and the ultra-efficient guillotine.  Add to that how the mantra of "tolerance" was used to silence anyone who opposed one's point of view.  Talk about "intolerance!"  And who can miss the lessons of the Warsaw Ghetto and the choke-hold on the world by Nazi propaganda which found fertile soil in children's hearts and led to holocaust?  No, this is quite serious and behooves me to take a more proactive stance to understand where TED is headed (Thanks Renegade.).
Although Hitler's "Final Solution" for the six-million Jews created such an outcry in contemporary times, didn't anyone notice Stalin was responsible for the fifty-million slain of his own countrymen?  Strange.

Thanks for this thread folks.

TaoPhoenix:

Hmm.

I've just spent a few nice hours listening to the non-business talks. It ranged from a great comedy skit, a couple of good science talks about Dopamine overloading, parts of a couple blah "improve your life by writing things down", and a good beat-boxer.

Then one presentation left me with a bit of a lurch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB_sfnwbgvk
The evolution of juggling: Jay Gilligan

Here's why: for someone who has spent his whole life studying and teaching juggling, his presentation was somehow a bit chilling at the over-selling of what looks like only mediocre ability, apalling misunderstanding of historical research vs business concepts, and ... no fun or amazement.

His entire presentation over-sold juggling innovation as this incredibly hard process on the order of the hard sciences. "Look! Years later, we now have a triangular ring! New techniques are possible with this different prop!! It's pointy!!"

There's just one problem. He got schooled about *twenty years ago* by my summer camp juggling teacher. Because she taught us to juggle the two orbs and ...

... wait for it ...

A forlorn half-destroyed rubber chicken. Comedy gold was made that day.

40hz:
I can put up with almost anything TED does so long as presentations like this one hit the widest possible audience.

(with thanks to fellow DC member Shades for putting me on the track to it.)

ewemoa:
Wow!

Renegade:
Although Hitler's "Final Solution" for the six-million Jews created such an outcry in contemporary times, didn't anyone notice Stalin was responsible for the fifty-million slain of his own countrymen?  Strange.
-CodeTRUCKER (March 01, 2014, 09:54 AM)
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Hitler was an amateur compared to Stalin, Mao, or the earlier Jewish communists that murdered 5~10 million Ukranians in the early 1930's. But f*ck history and f*ck truth. Only the Zionist political agenda matters. Pfft.

Shut up. Watch TED. Worship at the altar of progressive liberal socialist science. That is your god. Anything else is heresy.

TED makes me sick most of the time.

I can put up with almost anything TED does so long as presentations like this one hit the widest possible audience.
-40hz (March 15, 2014, 07:55 AM)
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And it's dripping with agenda...

Any time someone comes out saying "think of all the poor/starving/children/women/whatf*ckingever", I want to puke. The vast majority of the time it's an agenda and when you start following things back, it's the exact opposite of what it looks like. "I am Ukrainian" was a good example of a psyop. F*ck that.

I watched the entire video. And it looks cool, but the agenda there makes me question what's going on. Some people are just pawns...

My distrust of TED has only grown deeper.

If TED disappeared, the world would be a much better place.

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