A letter to all who have lost in this era | Anand Giridharadas
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2016
- How did we get a world of such disconnect, fracture and fear? Writer Anand Giridharadas tackles this question by reading a letter to his fellow citizens in which he confesses to his and others' part in ignoring people's pain until it turned to anger. There is another way, he says: "Dare to commit to the dream of each other."
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I think this guy hit the nail on the head perfectly.
Charlie Wilkinson I do apologize for beginning the way I did. I was frustrated and depressed at the time with the comments I was reading. Also, it was mainly used as a bait. There are times when I message people to get specifics to their opinions and was ignored. Therefore, bait,bait,bait.
Care to elaborate on this "xenophobia" topic? "The growing tide of xenophobia" is a rather vague statement. Specifics preferred.
Teddie I'm in the UK, so I was generalising a little. But over here, we've just recently seen a huge rise in hate crimes following the Brexit vote. That paired with Islamophobia worldwide makes me feel like xenophobia is something that is getting worse, not better.
Charlie Wilkinson Interesting. So based on the 3 articles i've read so far there seem to be an alleged number of "hate crimes" of 1787 to 3000 incidents.
Now, they are defining hate crimes as
"Offences were mainly harassment and threats of a racist nature, said Hamilton, directed against “visible minorities".
-www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jul/11/police-blame-worst-rise-in-recorded-hate-on-eu-referendum
As to what qualifies as harassment and threats is never actually specified. In all likelihood, these "crimes" you're referring to are largely non-violent in nature. Remember now, in some areas in the west, women believe that if a guy is hitting on a woman, then he is "harassing" her.
"But despite the increases, police chiefs say they no longer want to collate weekly figures, arguing that the reduction in the level of increase means that is no longer justified".
-quote www.theguardian.com/society/2016/sep/07/hate-surged-after-eu-referendum-police-figures-show
In all likelihood, the police view this social justice warrior bullshit as a big joke and such they stopped collecting data on it and perhaps decided to focus their efforts on violent crime (like sensible non-retards).
Alrighty, let's have a comparison in relation to an argument presented by the "xenophobic right".
In Roterham ( a part of the UK), 1400 girls and women were raped and sexually abused by Islamic migrants. Going as far back as 1989. And there are accusations that the police were intentionally withholding this information from the public and not prosecuting the Islamic gangs for their rapes.
Quote: Meanwhile, people who could have protected these girls, such as teachers and social workers, studiously ignored the problem out of fear of breaking anti-bigotry laws. The police did as little as possible out of fear of Muslim riots
Quote: www.counter-currents.com/2016/05/the-battle-of-britain/
Now let's have a comparison of the 2 parties. Party A: The Nationalists are verbally harassing and threatening (in all likelihood) Islamic migrants
Party B: Islamic gangs have been raping hundreds of British women for years and years with the Police of the town actively suppressing the incidents to avoid being called "racist" and or "xenophobic".
Friend, which is worse?
Would you say the hatred the Nationalists feel towards these foreigners (whom are antithetical to the Western way of life and thought) is entirely justified?
Xenophobia: intense or irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries.
Does their hatred qualify as "an irrational dislike or fear of the other,"?
www.forbes.com/sites/rogerscruton/2014/08/30/why-did-british-police-ignore-pakistani-gangs-raping-rotherham-children-political-correctness/#2f0e631e5a7c
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3465306/Teenager-beaten-brothers-d-abused-Rotherham-grooming-gang-age-12.html
www.jihadwatch.org/2016/02/uk-rotherham-city-that-covered-up-muslim-rape-gang-activity-steps-up-police-patrols-against-islamophobia
www.counter-currents.com/2016/05/the-battle-of-britain/
Charlie Wilkinson O.o, I see no replies to my argument have been made. I wonder why....
Are you not a fan of facts?
Teddie I can't tell, among Christians, who is a rapist and who isn't. Does that mean I should fear all Christians and commit hate crimes against them? No. Sharia law does not govern modern islam, that's just simply incorrect.
Yep, the majority of people are being screwed over for the benefits of the few.
no, idiot. Listen to the video then make your statement.
I think he did listen but disagreed, which is fine.
+mhtinla "yep" indeed
That's not the point of the talk.
The point of the talk is up to each's own interpretation when he uses poetic, fluffy words.
As someone from a collapsed town in the Pennsylvania "rust belt" but also completely engaged by futurism, this hits hard. I can feel both sides of the world pulling further apart and it feels like I'm being pulled apart. Those same things that many of us can agree make the world a better place make the immediate world around me progressively full of more unemployment, addiction, crime, and depression than ever before. These people are my neighbors, my cousins, uncles, grandparents, childhood friends. It's hard to watch and try to intervene but the forces of the world progressing without them are too strong.
paul krugman wrote a good piece about how small towns served as a necessary hub ... and that's why they existed.
and the problem is that those "hub" reasons no longer are viable.
it was an excellent - and dispassionate - explanation of why rural towns are either struggling or dying: their purpose for existing no longer exists.
(I can find it if you need me to. I'd link to it right now but it's not saved on my phone.)
In a Capitalist society, technology, immigration, and offshoring are all pressed into the service of wealth concentration. You can't separate them unless you change the economy and keep the powerful from amassing more power at the expense of the many.
It is so good, promising, & encouraging to see a few 'thinking' people for a change. Bless you...
Have faith my brother.
Unbridled greed and access to power has created high unemployment, addiction, crime, and depression. This November vote for women and for blue because trickle down has all but destroyed the promise of America.
What he has said has been in my heart since a long time.. This was so needed
I feel it. I am terrified.
You are not alone. I am afraid too, and many people are. People in power would keep people like you and me fighting one another in the hopes of clinging to power a little longer. They scapegoat and accent our differences because otherwise we might be less afraid together.
Regardless of your leanings, and situation, I hope you vote this November, please be safe. The future in my mind and the imagination of my children includes you..
Greed has destroyed human civilisation. The suffering will end when we do.
Don't bury us all preemptively. We made this mess, we can still do things to mitigate it's effects. One of the main ways would be separating power from financial interests.
We have the ability to change things, more than we have at many other points in our history. It has never been easy to speak against corrupted entrenched power. People on the brink of social change have always done exactly that. It has never been easy, but essential to evolution as a society.
Ouch!@! I'm trying not to believe you but Im losing.
It's the consumer culture, people are intimidated by the shiny things to be in their life and suddenly everything is a race
One of the greatest thinkers of our time! Please listen to what he has to say! Refuse to listen at your own peril...
This is everything I have thought spoken so beautifully and poetically you are bound to listen and understand at a deeper level. WE need to work out how capitalism and our global economic situation is affecting everyone and if we do not work together it is gonna turn into a revolution or something worse. I hope diplomatic situations start with a public honest global conversation where we can all participate together for a better reform.
I fully agree.
But "honest" IS the problem
+Andrea Brussi
yes, agreed. honesty is sth that is difficult, even to those we trust and love
It isn't about dwindling privilege.
It is about raising up those who lack it. The answer to unequal education is not to do away with good education people might get in one place, but to raise the level of education that has been lacking in another place, so both enjoy a good education. So no. Privilege should not "dwindle", it simply shouldn't be a "privilege". It should be common.
how I wish this would be broadcasted in Ghana live
The poor had no part in this dilemma,they were sold out by the greedy. Now you want to dialogue with them?
Ask Marie Antoinette how that's going to end.
It's good to be the king - until it's better to be the piss boy.
The binary (you-me) structure of this talk is what makes it both powerful and fallacious at once. I find myself in both categories at different points and imagine many who if honest would also. For instance, when he says he had been dreaming of life on Mars and life extension I was thinking of tech billionaires's projects of rockets and freezing their organs versus all the homeless and drug addicted on the streets of their cherished city of San Francisco. So I thought he was taking the position of money and power. But later I really identified with the "you" who don't get to have their children do better, or grow up to buy houses. So then I thought he was taking the position of the rising third world. I have mixed skin and the historically less powerful body parts. Language, which as he says may be the only thing that we have in common, seems to trap us in dualism. Mixed race is the largest growing US census group. Am I the only one for whom this binary conflict falls apart through thinking? Perhaps no "one" can truly win or dominate. With this realization how could war be justified?
The fallacy is intended - rich people do not exist in a vacuum. Wealth, and private property by extension, is a social construct - we have all agreed to. Could wealth, and extremely wealthy people exist without our collective agreement? What's changed over the last few decades is this marketing of wealth as a measure of social worth - as if being wealthy makes one somehow better or smarter; this, Giridharadas argues, and I would agree, is just a marketing ploy to wash the atrociousness of our capitalist system.
Tip: Change your settings to 1.5x playback speed.
I go all the way to 2
A much friendlier viewing experience, thanks
BETAmosquito to
Bod Notbod I’m sure u wish that ppl would do what u suggest.
Thank you
I thought you weren't allowed to have notes for a TED talk? Love to listen to you Anand.
This is brilliant, although I wonder how many of the people he's addressing listen to TED talks.
A nice beautiful and lovely letter to all summoning all as a family.
We should always remember a thing that together we stand,divided we fall always for sure
A very beautiful letter. Thank you :)
Well, the people who have lost sure wouldn’t be in that audience, sir!
exactly
This was outstanding! 🙏🙏🙏
I have zero interest in poetry but this guy said it true and clear...But I don't think the 1% driving people and planet into the ground are going to get it somehow.
we have to take charge from them. they will never understand our pain. unless we make them feel the pain we feel everyday.
2:25 my fears have been TRIGGERED
A good title for this dark poetry is “I Am the Rich Man’
The best speech for 2016.
And then i get an add for going to work at Fidelity investments at the end. Talk about he wrong audience.
mark zuck is working on it ;)
Brilliant
The politicians of today must do what their voters want or need.
This is so prophetic it's scary.
TED = Beatnik Coffee Shop Poetry Readings
Anand is the best :)
Revealing our pain in this era which we still need to face after back to life, after walking out of the TED room.
TED has turned into poetry readings.
"electing vulgar demagogues"-This, BEFORE 2016 Nov 8.
Well, Obama had run two elections by that time, so his point about demagogues has merit.
HeltonM7 Trump has outdone Obama on being a narcissistic demagogue.
@@HeltonM7 Trump is the incarnate of vulgar but there are racists that can't get past their limitaions.
Спасибо за перевод
👍great speech
Now thats Poetry
This is the most coherent and powerful explanation AND rebuttal of the Trump era I've heard to date. Anand, you're a good man.
This is what real talent looks like.Brains married to compassion and self critique.
great talk, inspiration and direction
Another fan of the Giorgio Tsoukalos hairstyle.
its all by design
yes, but whose?
....the result is the same
@Allison Bauch I've been trying, but no one wants to hear the answer. I'm called paranoid, fool, idiot, leftist trash, conservative boomer, and other dismissive names none of which were completely correct or often even remotely close - maybe a bit here and there but always more wrong than right. In the end, it won't matter. We're all part of the world that is someone else's dream - or nightmare. Enjoy the ride while it lasts. It will be over all too soon. Good luck, my friend.
Listening to this in 2H2021 😬
This guy is a great role model. One of my biggest inspirations. Thanks for your work 👍
Good talk. Made some great points but i couldnt help but notice at the back just showing europe and North america...the only two parts that matter as he talks about the wars and bad things happening in other parts than shown at the back.
They need a ted talks on this guys hair.
depends ....A child is innocent it's society that defines him good or bad
Speaks like Captain Kirk.
OmG. What a thought and view.
WOW! Amazing...
Such a great public speaker & story teller!
We have already blew our chance at democracy the dawning of the internet was the precipice of change we would have done it democratically and critically with input from everyone instead we have internet monopolies getting all the capital that isnt offshore and its clearly making democracy worse and culture worse and economics and on and on I dont believe theres any stopping it now..weve had all the time in the world to get it right we were bustin up monopolies back in the day.. then war became the name of the industrial society game and cranked out the internet and voila
Nice talk!
Only 76K views. Too uncomfortable for most, but absolutely necessary and fully true. It is time for a vibrant empathy that is not just "feeling" but action with and for each other.
There's a typo in the title. That's just a tanned ray William Johnson
Glad I'm not the only one
I couldn't continue that , its really boring
Zahraa Channel lol,an entire liberal quote,you Must have guts to listen to It
I generally like Anand but this talk was extremely what I hear his critics say about him. Eek
wonder if he wants any cheese with that.
Wanted to really get the message, but I was a bit distracted by his hair and nerves at public speaking. To me, the hair said "vanity" and if the dramatic pausing in speaking was due to nerves, that says "self consciousness" (vanity and fear) and taking himself too seriously. This one missed the mark for me. Interesting given the lead line of the talk. But good on you for doing a Ted talk Anand!
It was this condescension that lost 2016
The Gettysburg address it ain’t but I take his point.
Why do you guys think he chose to present this in the form of a letter?
because he couldn't be bothered to memorise his script?
He wrote it to himself and mailed it to the world.
NICE HAIR
NICE SARCASM
NICE COMMENT
NICE REPLIES.
NICE C C C COMBOBREAKER
Nice thread...
DAT HAIR
People are mad, and currently both sides are letting the extremists talk.
Civil war is too strong a word for what's coming, but I'm moving to Seoul for the next decade.
If Lil Kim goes nuclear, Seoul is the first to go.
David Boucard Yeah, I'm more worried about a lot of other things. Given the lack of nuclear action (and his genuine love of life), Kim probably won't push the red button till he's pushing 90. And by then, I'll either be dead from natural causes or in Sweden, Skiing till my knees give out.
Abraham golden Just out of sheer curiosity, where are you from and what makes you certain that a war is coming?
David Boucard Seattle, WA, USA, and I'm not 100% sure a war is coming. But given the general schism in the US between people who have ridiculous sums of money and the people they pay a pittance, something is going to break. Maybe some billionaire's kid rapes someone, and goes on some classist rant. Maybe the proletariat stop working, re-unionize, and get hit by the union busters like in the Ford era. I don't know, but there is a line in the sand being drawn, and I want to be on a different beach, regardless of what precisely happens.
Also, Seoul has free public wifi of, like, 15 megabits. 15!
David Boucard You come from a city. In cities, you live around the uber-rich, and it's hard to hate someone you talk to/live with. I also had this problem, and lived in the Seattle echo chamber.
Just listen to Trump supporters. Most of them aren't really that bad. They're just sick and tired of the fact that their kids don't have a guaranteed job at a factory, and that we can't go back to the days of union jobs with good pay, good pension, and good lives.
This may not be true, but they feel it's true, and with the small towns all across america closing down, that builds resentment. Mix in social change moving at a rate unheard of throughout history and you have a powder keg waiting to go.
If every rich person were to sit down with every person losing their job or watching their kids go out looking for jobs at a McDonalds, then both sides would look for a compromise. That can't happen though.
I'm hopeful that people won't go too far. But I'm very concerned about my well being, and there are a LOT more people on Trump's side than on the side of globalizers.
But hey, maybe things will get better! Maybe both dies will realize that they don't have horns and we don't have tails. It starts with youtube comments like this, and maybe it spirals into people trying to listen.
WOW I WENT FOR WAY TOO LONG!
Either way, thanks for the conversation!
Just another pillar of the structure looking at it's own leg.
could anyone tell me the moral of this talk .. ? I'm serious ..
the guy is showing remorse for being smug and not actually listening to the working class people who have real concerns in politics, not just a bunch of made-up "identity" issues.
Still condescending, and patronizing, and arrogant. Appreciate the effort, but more listening is required. When you take the easy (and regrettably effective) route of painting a narrative while avoiding the nuts and bolts of the arguments, you only spur the cycle of demagoguery.
He still gotta get his money from that rich TED talk audience right lol. Society is so backwards
Did. This. Guy. Learn. To. Speak. By. Watching. William. Shatner's. Acting. Career?
Quick, he has stolen Don Kings hair!
Stop being racist. That"s his real hair. My ex son in law had hair like that.
Yeah, there are poor people in the world and we should help and so on.. But everyone has their own dreams and utopias. And it's important to think about the future, to think about change. At some point in this video he says something like "I was dreaming with immortality while you guys live less than your parents"...
So what? So curing old age is not important? So we should close Nasa and not go to Mars? So this kind of thing really annoyed me, because it belittles the future, it belittles change. The guy says in a way, almost as if... "wanting change was a bad thing". Change is important. It's because of change that we achieve the world that we have today. And thinking about the future is important.
Sorry, for my bad english, by the way.
Gobbledygook. I am as confused as when he uttered his opening. I'm still afraid of him and all of you out there. Humans are devious and always up to something. Life is salmon swimming upstream. The fact that he's on this stage indicates how much he fights to be noticed and in front. The bottom line is that like animals people just are driven to spread their seed, push for their own and live as selfishly as possible to ensure their genes continue. There are no heroes or ideals. It's bs. This guy's trying to be a saint when in fact his whole being is motivated by succeeding at all cost. Life is "Look at me! Look at me! Hey Mom, look at this! Teacher, teacher look at me!" all the while waving your hand in front of someone else's face!
Hopefully TED will start screening these talks more carefully after this one snuck through.
??!! WE, AS A NATION, DECIDED LONG AGO TO ALLOW THE 'OTHER' IN! IF OTHER COUNTRIES WANTED WHAT THE US WANTED, THEY COULD HAVE CREATED IT THEMSELVES. IT WASN'T ABOUT SKIN COLOR, IT WAS WHAT WE CREATED IN OUR OUN COUNTRY- GENERATIONALLY!! IF YOUR ANCESTORS HAD WANTED IT, THEY SHOULD HAVE CREATED IT! BUT THEY DIDN'T.
THE END!!!
what's the thing with this speech style? Pretending to be "improvising" with speech grammar, random structure, digressions and emphasizing every other sentence... Why. In this context it just sounds amateurish
dude is like an older indian Ryan Reynolds
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No more let them eat code.
Swinging pendulum, perched atop its axis.
He looks a bit like Ryan Reynolds, only brown.
exactly!!
😀
we do not fear it disreputable dh
right.
The Truth we all ignore...
I Pray for a good election, and 4 good years with the next President of the States. Hopes from Denmark (before x became President)
Another bourgeois bohemian metropolitan trendy. Go to country and meet a farmer.
This speech is a veiled stereotipizing of dissenting voices covered in a sort of apology. It's reinforcing the idea that people voting brexit and trump are unintelligent and backward.
It's not recognizing the intelligence of biologic design, and people who defend it (conciously or not). The importance of maintaining national unity (through principles) not unlike an organism mainains cohesion even though there is diversity within, like different organs and such. Organisms can and must cooperate and form ecology to coexist and evolve, but always maintaining integrity. We cannot trasgress biology and start connecting tubes on each other to share blood at all times, that's not how things work. It's the same with countries and identities, the future is not becoming a single grey monoculture, but of color and diversity in nations.
He's right
I'm pretty sure he's left
Not sure he understands what he thinks he does.
All the people who are clapping have enough money to attend TED.
zarkoff45 those are the ppl he was speaking to. He was attempting to enlighten them and warn about what the near future might bring if nothing changes & if the ppl in that room keep doing what they’re doing.
dont anyone start arguing with me
Cite your fucking sources bro
look I dont know wats the matter with you creatures, just dont START for crying out loud, are you dumb as well as stupid
"I doing know what's wrong with 'you' creatures..." the very same thing that is "wrong" with you, self admitting. inner problems, pointing fingers. etc.
this is genius :D
An eloquent neoliberal apology to rural America well put together by Anand.
What? Jimmy Carter is still alive. How could he have been reincarnated already?
I feel like I'm too young to get the joke. What's the joke?
这就是典型的那种Ted Tall，听了半天好像听到了很多，其实仔细一想啥都没收获。
英文要加强哦！
Huh. A rich guy showing remorse for stepping on the common man. One down... Many more to go. Do his actions reflect his words?
This is only babbling. Nothing behind it, it will change no single thing.
So can someone sum up in few sentences what this talk was about?
Your utopia is not my utopia; but we need to get along anyway.
+Skyeater your utopia is not my utopia, but I won't tell you what my Utopia is and what your Utopia is. And I will keep everything as vague as humanly possible.
Vagueness is the key to success
Teddie I agree, but I don't believe that was the point of his "open letter". I think it's supposed to resonate on an emotional level with people in the wealthy class of American society. Maybe the working class too, just a lil.
i think he was saying, "youve never had anything so dont expect too much in the future either" in that sense lol
The fck is he talking about?
Well said. Thank you for putting them on opposite sides. Everything on the right is in favor of the masses and on the left is pure propaganda, bullshit.
dude looks like a jimmy neutron pallette swap
4 minutes in...and what are you talking about
Exactly. Some here are saying they consider this the best talk of 2016, I watched to the end and have no clue what the objective of this was.
like comen if you aggre that we shold put tehnolegcy down and go aute to wrold and meet new people.
Sounds like pure bs
Third!!
At least the people will be able to understand what he is trying to say. In India we would be labelled anti national to put forth such ideas in public domain.