They refused to publish it? Wow, thank you for finally giving me a concrete reason to hate TED talks. They’ve always seemed like the biggest fart-sniffing conventions I can imagine. And it drives me nuts how people all present with a certain cadence, intonation, tone of voice. Like some kind of learned artificial dialect, the “good public speaker” dialect/accent. A perfectly fitting marker of the incestuous masturbation so prevalent among the kinds of people who give TED talks. I’m not saying they’re all bad, so no offense to anyone’s favorite TED speaker. There’s been decent ones, but its largely exactly the kind of elite Ivy League parasite that, remarkably, manages to be despicable to both conservatives and many liberals. No wonder TED didn’t publish something that might make their own speakers feel bad.
TED is a platform for basic “Ecomodernism” (Green Capitalism), its entire philosophy is Business As Usual with slow change via technological innovations.
So the thing is, there’s TED Talks, and TEDx Talks, and the second one you can just buy your way on to and say whatever the fuck you want to. That’s the one usually used by rich yahoos to peddle their snake oil.
In the 2019 talk, Hanauer does not explicitly mention any political party but calls out the faults of “neo-liberal economic theory” and highlights alternative economic hypotheses.
Probably more effective this way. Need to get the conservatives on board.
They refused to publish it? Wow, thank you for finally giving me a concrete reason to hate TED talks. They’ve always seemed like the biggest fart-sniffing conventions I can imagine. And it drives me nuts how people all present with a certain cadence, intonation, tone of voice. Like some kind of learned artificial dialect, the “good public speaker” dialect/accent. A perfectly fitting marker of the incestuous masturbation so prevalent among the kinds of people who give TED talks. I’m not saying they’re all bad, so no offense to anyone’s favorite TED speaker. There’s been decent ones, but its largely exactly the kind of elite Ivy League parasite that, remarkably, manages to be despicable to both conservatives and many liberals. No wonder TED didn’t publish something that might make their own speakers feel bad.
TED is a platform for basic “Ecomodernism” (Green Capitalism), its entire philosophy is Business As Usual with slow change via technological innovations.
So the thing is, there’s TED Talks, and TEDx Talks, and the second one you can just buy your way on to and say whatever the fuck you want to. That’s the one usually used by rich yahoos to peddle their snake oil.
Yes that’s true, I won’t even consider watching a TEDx.
They’re all Steve Jobs wannabes. They copy his presentation style as much as possible, short of wearing a black turtleneck and jeans.
It’s really just a platform for self-aggrandizement.
In the 2019 talk, Hanauer does not explicitly mention any political party but calls out the faults of “neo-liberal economic theory” and highlights alternative economic hypotheses.
Probably more effective this way. Need to get the conservatives on board.