redcheerio
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Just watch the TED talks and see that no dissent is allowed. No dissent is allowed from the audience and none is allowed on stage - it is just like church.
And no dissent is allowed in TED talks because it would break the last taboo. Yes, the last taboo is piety.
And notice when I break the taboo against impiety here, they won't address the issue I raise, rather they make me the issue.
So please be impius, rediscover your intellectual integrity and your emotional freedom.
Ok, but you can instead come here with your intellectual integrity and emotional freedom and talk freely about the specific topic at hand, right?
Or if you're more interested in complaining about TED talks in general and their format and the people who follow them, you could start a new thread about that instead, yeah?
I understand dissent makes you feel uncomfortable, just as it makes the audience and speakers at TED feel uncomfortable.
But piety and dissent are not compatible, so TED has opted for piety and no dissent. Just like a church - the church of TED.
But unlike TED, TypologyCentral practises freedom of speech.
And the price we pay for freedom of speech is that sometimes we feel uncomfortable.
Nope, dissent doesn't bother me; I'm ENTP, silly. You quoted my post, but your response sounds like you didn't read what I wrote because you didn't respond to anything I said.
I made 2 points:
1. If there are things you disagree with about the TED talks, instead of getting annoyed that you're not allowed to disagree on their website, you're free to start threads here to discuss your dissenting views. Why not? I think it would make for interesting discussion!
2. The discussion of whether or not they allow dissenting discussions on TED is not relevant to this thread, so if you want to talk about that, you could start a new thread to talk about it, instead of derailing this thread.
Anyway, I agree that it's silly not to allow people to disagree with them on their website, if that's true. I dunno, I've never tried joining in the discussions there. I suppose I might be irritated if I had an important point to add and they deleted it.
However, a lot of public forums have very strict modding, so I would guess it's likely more a matter of editing your disagreement to suit the strict rules of etiquette there, than about the fact that you are disagreeing with them.
So it doesn't bother me much, because we can just discuss it here instead. Which brings us back to my previous suggestion: if you disagree with something on TED, why not start a thread here to discuss it? And if you want a more in-depth discussion about freedom of speech on TED, why not start a thread here to discuss that?
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