How fear drives American politics | David Rothkopf | TED Talks
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- čas přidán 11. 05. 2024
- Does it seem like Washington has no new ideas? Instead of looking to build the future, it sometimes feels like the US political establishment happily retreats into fear and willful ignorance. Journalist David Rothkopf lays out a few of the major issues that US leadership is failing to address - from cybercrime to world-shaking new tech to the reality of modern total war - and calls for a new vision that sets fear aside.
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Good talk. Really sobering to see this current lack of transparency and focus on urgent issues~
This may just have been the best TED talk I have ever watched. oO
The way he connects different important topics is amazing.
One of the best Ted Talks ever!
Like any good novel movie or play should be but it doesn't make the stories gospel.
Excellent talk! I was so taken by his intelligence I looked him up. I'll be following him more. Thank you Mr. Rothkopf for your work and your voice.
one of the best TED talks i've seen. keep up the great work and thanks.
"Please, applaud that" Hahaha. Great talk
And in his next speech, "how drinking water aids the thirsty" and other painfully fucking obvious things.
Your comment is hilarious :D however the speech was amazingly presented
+KingJzf yes but the idea was pale, David is awesome though
WTF are you talking about kid? Politics is the answer for what's wrong with the world like corrective rape it a quality answer to homosexuality.
Absolutely brilliant talk, keep the good ones coming!
This video is good, specially about the people being connected and the new possibilities
but american politics itself has several layers
and this is one of them
if you have ten bucks in your pocket and no debts you are richer than a third of the US.
Who has only 10 dollars but no debt? Lol
Ideals are peaceful. History is violent.
+Roy Mustang Dumb blanket statement. Some ideals are warmongering.
+puddin' He is quoting Brad Pitt's character in the film, "Fury".
When ideals are built upon a false concept of reality it typically leads to violence, see: Napoleon, Pol-Pot
+Roy Mustang Ideals are neither violent nor peaceful until action is taken based upon these ideals. History is not violent, history just is. In history people have taken actions which by one group may be perceived as violent. Violence is based on ones perception of an action taken based upon an ideal. In example you are a lactating manatee not feeding her young and I being the motorboat enthusiast, just out having fun, who runs your dumbass over by accident. Who is the violent one and why, based on what ideals.
+Roy Mustang peaceful ideas usually bring violence
Wow that was awesome
the talk was supposed about fear, i am in minute 16 right now and i dont hear that. i hear "america needs to change its ways in order to remain powerful". just me? am i misunderstanding ? english is not my native language.
+M3G4G0TH It is a matter of humanity and most, if not all, other animals going extinct within a few hundred years. Not whether USA is to "remain powerful", or not. The "scientific side" when educated enough fail to maintain the illusion and suspension of disbelief. We are heading towards the inevitable conclusion of exponential growth within a system of meager resources.
+M3G4G0TH The that begs the question, who other the only bastion of freedom in the world, would you want to be the worlds super power?
+Space Worlds Fear for your children leads to the same type of decisions.Just on a smaller scale.
Remember governments #1 priority is the safety of their people. Well some governments anyway.
+ken karish The only bastion of freedom ? I suggest you tell that to a policeman. Don't let him know you have money in your pocket
+1lightheaded Son. You have never been to a third world country, That is obvious. No cop has ever tried to take my money..
Though I do concur that the government is acting in bad faith when they can take you belongings and not charge you with a crime.
But then again I blame the uninformed electorate for this. And the 40,000 laws that went into effect on Jan 1st 2016....
Good video, not what I was expecting with that title, but really enjoyed the theme and the speaker.
"In my cell phone, I have an app that tells me where every plane in the world is"
*Every* plane? Yeah, no you don't.
+keBOBland I was referring to stealth aircraft and private jets. Oh, and Air Force One. "Every commercial plane" might have been better wording.
+Titty Mcgee Yeah, not just stealth aircraft. Most military flights turn off their civilian transponders when they leave US airspace (they have their own encrypted systems for military use). They can still be tracked by radar, but I'm willing to bet this app is specifically for commercial flights that report all of that information (including their own GPS position) in the clear, not actual radar tracking data.
15:53
*From the back row*
BECAUSE WE ARE NOT RESPECTED NOR PAID WELL ENOUGH IN AMERICAN SOCIETY TODAY TO EVEN DO IT OUT OF JOY OF PHILOSOPHY!!!
Very good talk!
It's not just about philosophical issues or changing social conditions, it's about the influence of a criminal sociopathological influence on society. We have parasites crippling what could be a functioning society and no amount of reinterpretation is going to change that.
Awsome, he is really intelligent and has such a point!!
Great talk!
Amazing talk
What an incredible TED talk! Well said.
Great Talk!
Still powerful & relevant in 2022.
thank you.
What's the name of that app he mentioned?
With most TED talks having around 95% upvote ratio and me being usually in that 5% (I'm somehwat a TED critic) I want to tell mr David Rothkopf, You go an upvote from me.
Brics.is.doing.exectly.what.you.suggest.but.will.u.s.A..agree.
What app is he talking about at 9.30? That would be awesome to know where the plane overheard is flying to. Anyone know?
24radar i think.
FlightRadar24
Dantick09
no problem
17:45 "of philosophy"
What does TED know about philosophy? I seriously doubt they have ever had Stefan Molyneux (or someone of his caliber) do a talk for them.
I'm five minutes in and this is brilliant.
Wow... Hope you can update this Ted Talk, a lot of crazy stuff has happened in 6 yeaes .
I clicked like before I even watch the video since I'm an international student in the US for a while and I know for a fact that they fear pretty much every thing, from the epola to a sudanease guy who invited a clock
he's a fantastic speaker
So right on
YES!
No you don't have an app that tells you where every plane is and where it's going. You don't have that for the vast majority of military planes. Saying otherwise is a gross exaggeration and unnecessary to make your point.
+Overonator I was thinking the same thing, He touch on America being attacked and pretty much said we reacted in the wrong way, But he never said what would have been the right way. Unless he thought we should talk to them. And if that's the case i suggest we send him over to the middle east to talk with ISIS, Taliban, Al Qaeda and all the other terrorist groups.
The problem with ted is he has been coddled so long he thinks that you can communicate in a meaningful way with terrorist. I say they only understand one thing. And that is violence..
ken karish
While everyone understands violence and you can "communicate" with someone with violence, you can appeal to people's self interests and that often is the best way to communicate with anyone.
Also you don't have to know what the right thing to do is, to be able to discern what the wrong thing to do is.
+Overonator I understand that, But how do you communicate with someone who's "best interest" is dying, Their goal is to kill infidels and go see Allah and be Martyrs..
Believe me I have tried to understand a way to deal with people like this and the only solution I have come up with, Is to threaten the leaders life in a pen with pigs and a webcam to humiliate them in front of the world.
But I am open to suggestions.
+Overonator Not all planes, but close enough. You can see all planes with an active ADS-B transponder that are close to a receiver on flightradar24.com. And yes, even military planes have an ADS-B transponder that transmits their GPS position. The only difference: The military planes can turn their transponder off when they want to. But they are not allowed to do this over civil air space. However, this does not mean that this wouldn't happen occasionally.
ConeTheOne
Well then that would make my statement more wrong.
to put 9/11 in perspective: 2977 people died in 9/11, on average in the US, about that many people die every 10 hours.
+Joe Bloe i don't think the number of deaths is that important.
Its all about who died, and how.
+Rob The Fandom Menace no, we should allocate government funds so that more people are saved, we should be putting more money into the NIH which deals with stuff that kills millions each year, instead of trying to stop the dozens of terrorism deaths by spending many times more money than we do on medical research, and continuing this waste after our efforts have proved counterproductive e.g. Iraq
Joe Bloe
i agree with you entirely, but i was talking about the way things are, not the way things should be.
wealthy white westerns dying is currently far more news worthy than poor brown afgans. There's a lot of talk is about how all people are equal and all life is sacred, but in practice that simply isn't true.
+Joe Bloe Some 60 million die every year, that doesn't put the second world war in some sort of perspective. 2977 as a mass murder is substantial counting every murder as a capitol crime. Guess your family wasn't involved.
+rawstarmusic My dad died in 9/11. and he took a couple thousand infidels with him
Treating everyone as if they are your enemy, initiates a defensive and antagonistic reaction from them. It is a self-fulfilling prejudice. In other words, prejudicially treating someone like an enemy, makes you their enemy.
If you do not understand, that is okya. The one and only thing that is being said is, Think for yourself, understand what you can, and fight for what you believe in. THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS FOR YOU TO KNOW, IS WHAT YOU KNOW IS WRIGHT. THERE IS A RIGHT & WRONG. By the way, the spelling was intended.
I agree totally
Washington needs to be decentralized.
*+mhtinla* Euthanized!
+Adrian
pulverized....Washington, the Colombian District that is...
remember the article of confederation?
"Those who do not learn history, are doomed to repeat it"
America restricts content as well, they also wage cyber war on behalf of the MPAA. I know they are not popular talking points but need to be discussed.
This is a problem everywhere
I live in Australia and there investing millions in a submarine that Is old tec
the video image is too poor, you need to fix it more
Flood? What flood? Weird.
Noah and the ark
Beth Glass
Oh. Hopefully he meant it as a metaphor and I don't want to derail away from his good points in the video by saying how there is no reason to believe that historically there was a global flood in the last 10,000 years or so.
+Cassandra McLean So what do you think is the point of this metaphor? Just curious. Cheers.
the written record (as far as I've found) in multiple holy books, multiple accounts of a flood. in terms of recorded history, that region wrote the book... 'global' is relative. this should be taken as fact as the rest of the public discourse assumes civility began at exactly the era recorded history began
+Overonator What's a metaphore
Internet and electricity a fundamental right? No. No one's rights make a positive claim on the product of someone else's labor. Great talk.
"We embraced the idea that if these 19 guys could do this, then anyone could do it" so we started doing it.
Interesting talk. But I have to say that there is no such thing as Russian firewall. We have laws about internet censorship but they don't work at all.
Reuniting science with government is not complete without incorporating the humanities. Knowing what we can accomplish needs to be tempered by knowing if we should. Our values are not adequately represented by science or government alone.
1:30 - we also put god on the money, put god in the pledge, McCarthyism...
The premise behind the challenge is at least half wrong. Government is not working in the new century because it conforms to a hierarchical control structure. The future, as Rothkopf points out in referring to TED, is the network of intelligence coordinated by its participants. What does that mean for governments, politicians, and bureaucrats? It's means transforming such institutions away from hierarchies and top-down problem-solving. In means constraining the power of these institutions through checks and balances and competition.
Yet, Rothkopf advises more coordination between govt, technology, and science, which implies more centralized control over the process. Those days are gone. It's almost as if we look at the postwar period of global politics in the latter 1940s and say, "We need that world again." Those days are gone, and good riddance. Let freedom ring and the chips will fall where they will.
Power is intoxicating
"We invaded Vietnam in response to that" oh wait that was a bad thing
I have three cell phones my family five each one of them has phonesI'm a gamer and when it has multiple personalities in my guildI'm going to share this on my Facebook cuz all my friends did you hear that most of them won't
Well, it's 2021 and he wasn't wrong.
Paradigm Change is happening.... and most people don't see clearly.... yet ;-)
"on September 11, 2001, 19 GUYS took over 4 airplanes and flew them into couple of buildings" wow he is joking right??
@4:05 What flood was he talking about? The biblical one?
Yes
>makes incorrect claims of why and where internet was invented
>references "The Flood" as an actual event....
yeah not listening to this guy until he does some research
+nodvick The internet as we know it wouldn't have been possible if not for the Cold War. ARPAnet was created by the United States' DoD in response to the USSR's Sputnik launch, as a way of gaining technological superiority and preventing nuclear war. The Flood reference was merely hyperbole.
+Heinrick192 Internet was invented in france who deployed the first public use: minitel
+nodvick You might wanna look up the holocene event ~12k years ago. Sea levels rose by 30 metres in a handful of years. How is that not a flood?
Maybe it is YOU lacking research.
+nodvick "the flood" was a tongue and cheek comment. In other words, he was being sarcastic.
+Neoshaman Fulgurant No Al Gore invented the internet, Just ask him...
3:50 - What flood? Is he serious?
+Onodera1980 Scientists are perpetually theorizing and researching the idea of a global flood in Earth's history, but there is still no consensus. However, there are stories of a great ancient flood throughout the mythology of hundreds of cultures from around the world as well as a large amount of physical evidence to support the idea.
There is no evidence in the geological record indicating a global flood. There is also not enough water on the planet to cover the earth. Your "scientists" are not following the facts, they are looking for facts that fit their worldview.
Sarcasm
+Onodera1980 I think it was a metaphor meaning "since never".
That's one smart . . . human being. I wonder who will listen ????
Why does everybody act as if fear is a bad thing?
"where are the philosophers?" Stefan Molyneux on CZcams is worth listening to.
+chantingtreeservice he rarely, if ever, adresses the technological revolution going on in the world right now. I like his presentations about propaganda and fear, though.
Figures its this guy. I don't know why he has 18 minutes to talk. Lucky man.
What you hear from the people in Washington is a very accurate reflection of the people who elected the people in Washington, aka The American Voter.
That's not true... America has become the new Rome. We've been pacified with bread and circuses. The average American voter isn't simply incompetent... he has been lied to, manipulated, intentionally undereducated, under informed, and distracted with "news" and "current events" that are borderline theatrical. Those of us who can sort of see past these tricks can't find ways to reach those who are unaware of the truth. Our government has become a parasite that has hijacked our ability to think for ourselves. We provide cash flow with which our government operates and in return we get to keep our blinders on.
Jennifer King .....damn right ma’am.....very well said.
Collective "we" error. "WE" didn't do this. You people and your representatives did.
"We're trying to determine how much we want to give in a negotiation with the Iranians on a nuclear deal that deals with the technologies of fifty years ago when in fact we know that right now the Iranians are engaged in a cyber war with us, and we're ignoring it, partially because becauses businesses are not willing to to talk about the attacks that are being waged on them"
Poor America under attack, paralyzed by this dastardly war waged on it by Iran....except that the U.S. & Israel through their massive cyber attack Stuxnet set a new precedent in driving forward cyber warfare by letting loose a worm that destroyed Iranian centrifuges (alongside the more traditional assassination of their scientists of course - though one might debate if the U.S. or just Israel is responsible for this). Poor America indeed.
If we're going to have this discussion, let's have it honestly.
16:59 - "I live in Washington. ...".
And I live in the Australian Capital Territory.
Both Federal capitals are heavily & secretly dominated by the military-industrial complexes. This is "normal" (statistically) for "nations" on Planet Earth.
The Number-One industry on this planet ("Law & Order") can only thrive with enough cannon-fodder (Health, Education & Welfare). As long as H-E-W fail, then the military bullies must rely on unplanned & unwanted pregnancies, & the religious groups which encourage the continuing failures in H-E-W.
"Good" religious groups demanding mindless baby factories believe in "miracles", "prayer", & suppression of logical, rational planning. Australia is blest now with the last two elected Heads of State (Prime Ministers Abbott & Turnbull) being good Roman Catholics, like my father was before his first wife divorced him.
"Long Live the Queen" (of England, Australia, Canada, etc. & Head of the Church of England in all the British colonies). Onwards all good X'n soldiers, marching as to war. War on non-X'ns, foreigners & foreign looking people.
Our democratically elected Federal governments have declared war of sympathizers of the Foreigners, like Edward Joseph "Ed" Snowden (USA), Julian Paul Assange (Australian politician). Long live X'n democracies!
One thing that's ironic: the Taliban and Isis were trained and armed by Americans...
And probably the next terrorist groups will be as well... Seems like American culture needs that.
I don’t get his joke about being a Jewish guy from NJ. Are Jewish people from NJ known to be anxious?
There are a lot of people here that hate Jews that’s a big problem in NJ as from someone from there
Nice talk... But implying that 19 Arab guys flew 4 airplanes to crashes is buying the lie. Not one body or one piece of any passenger plane or even one piece of luggage that took off that morning was ever found. The first time in history no evidence was found from a plane crash and it happened 4 times in the same day. Also no skyscraper has ever collapsed due to fire or explosions ever in the history of tall buildings and three collapsed in a thermite enduced perfectly timed explosions that detonated and collapsed these indestructible structures in a 6 to 10 second downfall and one did not even get hit by a plane. If he had started the talk out with the truth then the talk would have much more credibility.
I don't lose sleep for the kids sewing my sheets, or the ones stitching my sneaks, as long as I can buy 'em both cheap. American privilege, is blurring my vision, inherited sickness. Bish, don’t kill my vibe.
I hate politics hate the people who play them doesn’t matter where from politics ruin everything
fear can't melt steel beams.
+ToxicJumperify Neither can two planes.
+Carlton White In that style of building you only have to soften the bolts and it will pancake all the way down
Title promised more...:/
No freedom to privacy & freedom of expression. That is what 9/11 means to me. As it applies to most people yet as a Canadian, I would say we`re halfway there. But a native Canadian, more than halfway..
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He has never play metal gear solid 2 to say there is no doctrine
These people build the nuclear technology that insure the power behind a country and they seem concerned about its progress and their progress ...
@Trace Adkins why steal the picture and identity of a celebrity?
@Trace Adkins of course you are. Have a great evening Trace!
what app is that? lol
I take back my last statement
I believe him knows what he talking about
Donald Trump 2029
*All politics.
So...what's the point here....TED has really gone down. It used to be good. A good philsophy show is Stefan Molyneux. Watch it!
NSA et co. are the cyberterrorists of the first order.
He's ranting. Not that I find him disagreeable--but I shut off after ten minutes.
I don't find Rothkopf insightful whatsoever. He's a slight hop step above a televangelist.
HOUSE OF CARDS
Don’t you mean do deals with drug dealers in United States paid for by American gov.
history is violent and mad. Lets make a new
Meh....I found this talk contradictory👎
Dear see this video from China
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The Race Card Right off the start
I still use cash. Do not let them demolish cash.
Thanks... Make folks think again and realize this Constitutional Republic is in deep crap and those who Can, Should.
And I'm not talking about, "Yes We Can" either. Just ask, "Who is your real father"? There are rats in the grain; House cleaning starts NOW.
Look at the movie, "Dreams from My Real Father"
That was like chewing through cardboard. I was very interested at beginning but what a waste! No ideas or insights just blabber blabber of old known facts by an old guy who thinks he's very wise and important because he's very well connected with people of "influence". Come on TED! You can do better!
They are the one who got all the ter group together. Paid for by American tax payers. Can I get another please ?
They need to abolish slavery and illegal imprisonment