ideas worth spreading

so ok. i don't want to talk about boston tonight. it's too soon. i've not digested it. and i can't think of anything coherent to say about it. it just makes me sad.

so instead i will talk about what i thought was something peculiar to just me. and it's that i hate these ted talk things.

who knew? apparently there are others out there who hate them too. i'm not alone. i looked it up on the internet and lo and behold lots of other people hate ted talks too. huh. for much more valid reasons than me.

so yeah, all my reasons for hating the ted talks are likely sophomoric. in fact, the orignial reason i was suspicious of them was because of my hatred of bill gates. and if he's involved in it, sorry- i'm out. because of all the damage he's done to public education and the subsequent harm he's done to children.

so ted and i, we started on a bad note. because bill gates was involved.

but i tried. i really did try to listen to a great many of these talks. and i can't really say that i've hated all of them. but let's just say, i've hated a whole lot of them. ideas worth spreading. like manure.

which, yes, shit's a fertilizer and a damn good one at that. but i hate the whoel gatekeeperyness of it all. who are these teddy bears who decide what's an idea worth spreading and what is not?

well go to their webpage and take a look at some of the ridiculous titles these people give themselves: futurist, marketing guru, creativity expert..... and oh, my personal favorite - "connector extraordinaire."

w t f? yes, many or most of these people are smart. smarter than me, i'm sure. but seriously? these names?

even the fact that the whole group calls themselves a brain trust. meg ryan, she is part of this brain trust. and what the hell did she do to her lips, anyway?

but anyway. if you give yourself titles such as these, unless you're joking because you're making fun of something- as in my friend max calling himself the publications czar mimicing the recently appointed back in the 70's energy czar, you know what you ARE? YOU ARE PRETENTIOUS!!!

and perhaps that's my whole problem with all of this- the pretentiousness. the yuppiness. i just can't abide it. i can't stand it.

Think. Debate. Exchange. that's what ted supposedly stands for. as if we needed another cute, catchy, cheesy acronym in this world.

oh and i don't know. and yes, i know that i shouldn't throw the baby out with the bathwater. i might actually be the only person you know that actually really loves to attend lectures. but for pete's sake. . ted makes me want to kick puppies.

no, not really. i like puppies. i just don't like ted.