Walking through life with hands wide open…
“And yes, it means catching all of those miseries and hurt, but it also means that when beautiful, amazing things fall out of the sky, I am ready to catch them.”
Posts Tagged ‘TED’
Engaging in a serious argument determines the content
Great talk by humorist, writer and trickster Emily Levine.
I have questions with the values of Newtonian science. Like rationality, you’re supposed to be rational in an argument. Well rationally is constructed by what Christie Hefner was talking about today the mind-body split. You know? The head is good, body bad. Head is ego, body id. When we say “I,” – as when Rene Descartes said, “I think therefore I am,” – we mean the head. And as David Lee Roth sang in “Just a Gigolo,” “I ain’t got no body.” That’s how you get rationality.
Well, in ancient Rome, impenetrability was the criterion of masculinity. Masculinity depended on you being the active penetrator. And then, in economics, there’s an active producer and a passive consumer, which explains why business always has to penetrate new markets. Well yeah, I mean why we forced China to open her markets. And didn’t that feel good?
Embrace your inner girl, Embrace your whole self
Radically inspiring TED talk by Eva Ensler. It is worth watching from beginning to end. Though I don’t agree with all of it, particularly with the idea that the “girl cell” is THE future, for I believe it is just part of the future. We should not fall into the same opposite mistake: the girl despising and ignoring the “male cell”, our masculinity.
“this girl cell is compassion, and it’s empathy, and it’s passion itself, and it’s vulnerability, and it’s openness and it’s intensity and it’s association, and it’s relationship, and it’s intuitive.
An image meaningfully powerful
I saw this image in the fantastic Jonathan Klein’s TED talk on the power of image to change the world. It was taken by John Moore in Arlington cemetery.
Images that change the world
If you follow regularly this blog, you have probably seen that I like to use images to communicate what text cannot communicate. This video with Jonathan Klein from Getty Images where he shows how some images can make change happen in the world because they have emotional power that make people act and change their meanings of the world. A must see, particularly if you feel the meaning of pictures.
Tune in your emotions for collective meaning
Thanks to my very good friends Christine (@mccarthymadsen) and Matthew, I could meet today Alice Fung (@00alice) and Indy Johar (@indy_johar) from 00:/. Very interesting people. I wanted to meet them because in Factoria Ciudadana we have already started to work on the project of opening a The Hub in Barcelona. Already other social entrepreneurs in Barcelona have already been working on the same project for a few months, and we are starting to collaborate to make it real. Alice and Indy have been designing The Hub conceptual space from the beginning. I’ve already expressed my view about The Hub in a recent post. But the interest of talking with them goes beyond it. Their ideas are in tune with how I see the world and its future.
Last Sunday, some people organized in The Hub-King’s Cross a TEDX Volcano (second video below, skip the first 15 minutes, it is just people talking), an original way of bringing people trapped in London to share ideas about a diversity of issues, TED-style. (more…)
