![]() ![]() ![]() You're drinking bullet proof coffee, and you don't even realize you're getting all JAGGED UP in the head listening to my presentation. You're getting a little bit high on the sound of my voice. Neurons are firing in your brain, right now. Right now, in this room, Dreexel University, TEDX! NEXT X! This is the time… to be doin' this. This is a pivotal moment, a pivotal moment, in human history. Make sure your friend has their eyes closed, too. We're gonna change some minds, right now.Įverybody close your eyes, OK? Close 'em. I'm not gonna do anything weird or s… s… sensual with you.Ĭlose your eyes. Posted by codacorolla at 3:18 PM on OctoĬlose your eyes. When he's taking down a bunch of self-important assholes and grifters I think his act works. When he's mocking people who aren't really hurting anyone and exist in their own miniature world (like when he went on a homophobic rant at a Twitter poetry jam, or his anime convention video) I think that it's really just mean (as in unkind, spiteful, unfair) and petty. The two above reasons are why I liked Hyde's take-down despite not liking Hyde very much. I think that this is where the neo-liberal cheerleading criticism comes from: these just-so stories are appealing and easy to accept, and therefore are easy to powerpointize. The format also lends cachet to a lot of ideas which are neither monolithic nor cut and dried. This is neither a universal nor insurmountable problem, but it's irritating. Not everything is going to be accompanied by soaring music and a poignant one-liner. A lot of academic work is incremental movement in a particular sub-set of a sub-set - that's fine and necessary in some fields. I actually don't like TED much either, to be honest, because I think that the format has surpassed the content, and people expect all academic work to now be TED-ready (TEDy?). Posted by randomkeystrike at 2:30 PM on Octo Stuff that is both really profound and immediately understandable, like the first time that adjunct professor at your community college explained macroeconomics and you suddenly just GOT why gas is so high.Īnd your worldview changes, and your paradigm shifts, and you think: "How can I get more of this?"Īnd after you listen to about 10 of these, you say "What is this shit?" Third world death rituals, another tired rehash of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, and more three-point sermons about things that are either obvious, completely beside the point, or both, delivered by people who remind you of your high school principal. Why people won't pay $.99 for legal music downloads. I fell for it because the 1% of TED talks that are really awesome made their way onto my intellectual friend's timelines:Īnd we're talking: promising cures for cancer. (talking with hands moving in random patterns) I don't know if other people found the TED phenomenon to be the same way, but I completely fell for it. ![]()
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