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The evangelism of TED Talks has an eerie resemblance to this 19th century religious tradition


written by Roxanne Cooper / Religion Dispatches January 12, 2019



TED bills itself as an engine of social change, but what we have here, mostly, is a particular aesthetic.

The top ten most watched TED talks are, in order, about:

Creativity
Confidence
Motivation
Vulnerability
The Brain
Really Cool Technology
Orgasm
Motivation
Motivation
Really Cool Science

But actually the top ten TED talks are all about you. They’re about the way that ideas can transform your life. They’re about the way you feel when you watch them. They’re about all the times you’ve felt out of place in the world—stifled, unconfident, ill at ease; sent in to tackle a problem with a toolkit that doesn’t quite work. They’re about the capacity for adults to keep on learning. They’re about how your world can change.







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