The one about Capitalism may or may not interest you…it is a lot of American politics and our own issues of inequality…the other two were banned for being controversial in another way…that of challenging science and what we perceive to be true.
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The one about Capitalism may or may not interest you…it is a lot of American politics and our own issues of inequality…the other two were banned for being controversial in another way…that of challenging science and what we perceive to be true.
So...
I THOUGHT America was a free country to speak!!...
and I thought TED was somewhere you could talk freely without any problems!! ...
....Before I watch this!!!
WHY ON EARTH WAS THAN BANNED???
Did the government ban it?
I THOUGHT America was a free country to speak!!...
and I thought TED was somewhere you could talk freely without any problems!! ...
....Before I watch this!!!
WHY ON EARTH WAS THAN BANNED???
Did the government ban it?
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Our government doesn't ban anything. What happens is that our media is owned by a small number of rich corporations, and the small number of rich people that own these corporations indirectly own the government as well because they spend so much money influencing campaigns.
Because the media is owned by a small number of rich people, our population is brainwashed to believe things that are in the interests of the rich. We live in a bubble that is different from 85% of the world: only in places like western Europe, Japan, and Australia have this in common to some extent. We are taught to blame poor people for being poor and to believe that capitalism is good for everyone and everything. A large part of it is tied to racism. Income inequality is worse in the U.S. today than it was in apartheid South Africa, but people often ignore these structural inequalities (i.e. the fact that they are the descendants of slaves). A large portion of this country would even go so far as to think that, if your life isn't good, you haven't been praying to God enough and that is why you're poor.
So what happens is that with the pro-capitalism religious conservative environment, challenging it carries a heavy social stigma. Calling yourself a socialist here is pretty much the same as calling yourself a witch. Anything to challenge the dominant paradigm is dismissed no matter how much evidence there is. Many people, even educated people with science degrees, don't believe in global warming or environmental destruction. People here are also oblivious to how the U.S. uses military force to mess with many other countries. Like, 98% of people here don't know how the U.S. propped up a brutal dictator in Iran (and other countries like Pinochet in Chile). There is a serious level of ignorance and bigotry, and any views that don't mesh with that will get you labeled as un-American. You will get censored by virtue of that.
[MENTION=834]Dragon[/MENTION] this was the best TED ever for all times ...
I can't even describe you helped me by sharing this ...
Thanks dear friend <3
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[MENTION=834]Dragon[/MENTION] we're facing exactly the issues you mentioned and even worse to some extent in our country, Iran.
the worst part is that the government and those rich people are same!
It's obviously the same in Iran.our government is completely different than the reality and everyone knows that.some people just pretend that it's not cuz they are in that "government" category I mentioned.They are in their side cuz they benefit from them and that's all.
All these discussions remind me of the book 1984, a Novel by George Orwell which tells the story of a dictator leadership ( really relevant to the time in Iran now- and maybe some other countries)
the worst part is that the government and those rich people are same!
It's obviously the same in Iran.our government is completely different than the reality and everyone knows that.some people just pretend that it's not cuz they are in that "government" category I mentioned.They are in their side cuz they benefit from them and that's all.
All these discussions remind me of the book 1984, a Novel by George Orwell which tells the story of a dictator leadership ( really relevant to the time in Iran now- and maybe some other countries)
So
I'm having a two-week off and I'm doing quite a good TED therapy! which is helping me with a lot of stuff
First I was disappointed with people not loving their jobs , you all commented on it in various different ways and then I saw the first TED here (Scot) and I realized that OK , it's OK to quit the job you don't like cuz Scot did it and he's been searching for it for almost 4 years, (and I'm doing the same for 4 months so it's ok to move on
)
I'm thinking about 4 major problems here in Iran which can be seen all over the world as well
1.Schools
2..Our Educational System
3.Culture
4. Workplace environment
5.and the amount of self-study each person has
Now I'm going through these TED talks this week and it all makes sense somehow.It's beginning to be a long long journey...
I'm watching a TED talk by Sir Ken Robinson which is now my no.1 idol/icon and things are finally sinking in
https://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_bring_on_the_revolution
I watched it for 5 or 6 times but I needed to watch it just right in these days that I was annoyingly talking about environment and how people work in the wrong place and why they do so!
The answer lies beneath this latest talk I shared because it's not easy to find your passion! you need to learn to do so and people around me never learned it!
Most of us were lucky to find it and what we can do is to talk about it to people so they know that they all could do the same!
We need to help them see... I assume ...
I'm having a two-week off and I'm doing quite a good TED therapy! which is helping me with a lot of stuff
First I was disappointed with people not loving their jobs , you all commented on it in various different ways and then I saw the first TED here (Scot) and I realized that OK , it's OK to quit the job you don't like cuz Scot did it and he's been searching for it for almost 4 years, (and I'm doing the same for 4 months so it's ok to move on
)I'm thinking about 4 major problems here in Iran which can be seen all over the world as well
1.Schools
2..Our Educational System
3.Culture
4. Workplace environment
5.and the amount of self-study each person has
Now I'm going through these TED talks this week and it all makes sense somehow.It's beginning to be a long long journey...
I'm watching a TED talk by Sir Ken Robinson which is now my no.1 idol/icon and things are finally sinking in
https://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_bring_on_the_revolution
I watched it for 5 or 6 times but I needed to watch it just right in these days that I was annoyingly talking about environment and how people work in the wrong place and why they do so!
The answer lies beneath this latest talk I shared because it's not easy to find your passion! you need to learn to do so and people around me never learned it!
Most of us were lucky to find it and what we can do is to talk about it to people so they know that they all could do the same!
We need to help them see... I assume ...
Yeah, I'm not surprised. It is that way pretty much everywhere, and as messed up as the USA is, most other countries are even more corrupt. That reminds me of a guy I knew in graduate school. He grew up in Iran and left when he was like 19 or something because his father had been in prison for criticizing the way the government in Iran did things. There are a lot of people in the United States that would like to overthrow The Constitution and establish a christian theocracy, which would be kind of similar to the situation in Iran. That's why we're all so focused on events like Kim Davis refusing to let gay couples marry. She is just one person doing one thing, but her attitude represents a large segment of the country.
I really think that religion can set back education. For instance, in my high school, they had to teach us that evolution was 'just a theory' because they were told to even though we have tons of scientific evidence for it.
So
I'm having a two-week off and I'm doing quite a good TED therapy! which is helping me with a lot of stuff
First I was disappointed with people not loving their jobs , you all commented on it in various different ways and then I saw the first TED here (Scot) and I realized that OK , it's OK to quit the job you don't like cuz Scot did it and he's been searching for it for almost 4 years, (and I'm doing the same for 4 months so it's ok to move on
I'm thinking about 4 major problems here in Iran which can be seen all over the world as well
1.Schools
2..Our Educational System
3.Culture
4. Workplace environment
5.and the amount of self-study each person has
Now I'm going through these TED talks this week and it all makes sense somehow.It's beginning to be a long long journey...
I'm watching a TED talk by Sir Ken Robinson which is now my no.1 idol/icon and things are finally sinking in
https://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_bring_on_the_revolution
I watched it for 5 or 6 times but I needed to watch it just right in these days that I was annoyingly talking about environment and how people work in the wrong place and why they do so!
The answer lies beneath this latest talk I shared because it's not easy to find your passion! you need to learn to do so and people around me never learned it!
Most of us were lucky to find it and what we can do is to talk about it to people so they know that they all could do the same!
We need to help them see... I assume ...
I saw him in person when he came to speak at my college several years ago. He was quite good in person, and he has a lot of really good things to say about education. Education in a lot of ways makes us less intelligent because it beats the creativity and ability to think out of us. Everything is just about taking in information and then regurgitating it for a test. Most people don't really care about learning. They just want the credential to get a good job. It is unfortunate.
Studying philosophy really helped me to undo some of the damage that the previous 13 years of schooling did to me. The fact that I did music in high school also helped. I think if our education was focused more around these types of subjects and others like art that students would do better. But the trend is to privatize schools and force the kids to do nothing but reading and math all day. That makes them even less engaged than if they have subjects that they're actually interested in.
He's is a very good person indeed.
I suffers from school myself. I guess everyone did in some ways...
what you mentioned was bitterly true ... we need to pay the same amount of attention to all kinda of subjects Which leads us to the first talk Sir Ken Robinson did which was really revolutionary a had many fans
[video]https://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity[/video]
I suffers from school myself. I guess everyone did in some ways...
what you mentioned was bitterly true ... we need to pay the same amount of attention to all kinda of subjects Which leads us to the first talk Sir Ken Robinson did which was really revolutionary a had many fans
[video]https://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity[/video]
Yeah, that is what he talked about when I saw him. It is totally true too. School is dehumanizing like that.
Just watched this Talk:
Really helpful
http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gross_the_single_biggest_reason_why_startups_succeed#
The single biggest reason why startups succeed
Really helpful
http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gross_the_single_biggest_reason_why_startups_succeed#
The single biggest reason why startups succeed
this is seriously my favorite one, it's funny but if you actually listen to what she is saying she is actually saying a lot
I love comedians for this reason
[video=youtube;ci5p1OdVLAc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci5p1OdVLAc[/video]
I love comedians for this reason
[video=youtube;ci5p1OdVLAc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci5p1OdVLAc[/video]
