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JA Westenberg
@joanwestenberg.eth
TED offered a vision of the world where complex societal issues could be solved with a lightbulb moment and a well-designed PowerPoint presentation. Climate change? There's an app for that. Poverty? A social entrepreneur with a TED talk has it figured out. It was a worldview that flattered millennials' sense of ourselves as changemakers while conveniently ignoring the systemic barriers to real change. https://www.joanwestenberg.com/ted-talks-the-picotop-of-millennial-pop-intellectualism
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@deboboy
Was on a crew for one TEDx event… was setup as virtue signal entertainment; also a great hack by the parent org to get us all to volunteer while they took in ticket rev
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