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The word "gay" helps homosexual activists push their agenda.
A comedienne perhaps; a philosopher, not. If a china shop represented the universe of knowledge and ideas, she would be a clown acting like the proverbial bull.
@Mu5clehead How do you judge if someone in today's world is a 'philosopher', outside of the academic environment? Well, connecting ideas from the cosmos to the human condition is certainly one requirement, but after 2000 years of history of thought, one should at least also have an *accurate* or a *novel* understanding of those ideas. From what I can tell, she has neither. She either regurgitates or confounds ideas.
Ah, preaching the joy of wanting to have it all :)
In a very superficial way it was funny, in a more profound way I see it as highly insulting to human life. At least she admits to that from the very beginning :)
I can't get over the fact of how little importance her breathing dinamics has on her performance, which is also a very intriguing discourse on an alternative way of engaging reality. She's awesome.
Only disagree with her statement of contradicting people's realities. Try talking to a fundamentalist. Especially one who has interests in politics as well.
I really liked her performance, and I agree with her on a lot of points which made it all the better. I especially enjoyed how a lot of her jokes connected. It takes a very open thinker to create those kinds of acts I believe.
I agree with some of her points but it just wasn't a good performance, in my opinion. George Carlin was a thinking man's comic and a trickster. He rehearsed his material over and over. Her performance is just awkward.
It's not the same; not until we have a matriarchal society where rich white men are enslaved. You know, the exact opposite of that which makes the kind of relativism she talks about the most moral choice.
Her "objectification" of scientists, economists, and seizing the higher ground of "trixter" bugs me a bit. It's unnecessarily divisive. The TED audience, full of successful ground-breakers, agents of technical change, finds ways to bridge the gap, to find the inner trixter without abandoning intellect. She seems to get superiority mileage out of pretending that the two populations are distinct, that the trixter persona, herself, guides the otherwise blinkered scientists.
@jebuff This is appropriate. The trixter isn't higher ground, so much as a joker or trump card. Note that she doesn't gain her credibility by saying she's a qualified trickster, but by laying out an alternative, non-conflictual hypothesis and presenting examples which are amusing. Every trickster knows serious work gets done by serious people. Their concern is when ideas or relationships get stuck. No trickster tries to occupy the throne. Nor do they offer solurions so much as critique.
I liked this talk. But I disagree that a woman making fun of a man is different than a man making fun of a women or a black person making fun or a white person is different than a white person makeing fun of a black person. They are the same and should be regarded as the same, in my opinion.
i very much like her attitude, it's just that she doesn't understand or contemplate what it's like to actually do science. for example, when she implies that scientists can't hold ideas lightly, she ignores the idea of a hypothesis. An important element of a hypothesis is that it should be openmindedly discarded or altered when new observations arrive. Recognition, rewiring. exactly what she extols. i suspect the trickster could be a good scientist as well if not for the cultural excuse.
you'd be surprised how poorly the majroity of research psychologists especially behaviourists simply cannot understand their limits, and the confidence transfers into the people who read and incorrectly report on their 'findings', there is no self-awareness in the process adn its very obvious the way these proud creatures affect news and macrocosmic culture often negatively
@itteration2 On the contrary, people in the humanities understand hypothesis testing and statistical analysis pretty well. Scientists are much more unaware of the political, economic and cultural biases which lead them to choose the hypotheses and analyses they do. This is problematic because by the result is culture and science mutually affirming a delusion. It needs someone who can be outside of both to pull the carpet away.
@leconfidant as someone who sees, meets and talks to scientists 5 days a week, I can tell you that they are acutely aware of the social factors that affect their research. Your contention that they aren't is at odds with the really intelligent points that I've read from you on this page.
I regularly come across science enthusiasts who take it as insist that all of science is an isolated process of hypothesis testing as they understood it in high school. They then take this 'certainty' to dismiss everything non-science as non-sense.
Perhaps science and humanities are equally vulnerable to the politics of funding and so on, though hard science has the luxury of occasionally unambiguous evidence.
@leconfidant Such is the problem with 16 year old biology students loudly championing the cause of science (I was a particularly obnoxious variant a few years ago).
As far as I'm concerned, scientists simply don't champion their own causes enough with the general public (not sure if it's indifference, a lack of respect or a tendency to play close to the vest after a lifetime of scarring peer-review)
It takes a big person to apologize and I appreciate it
From 17:20 to 17-30....I thought that would fall in the category of light-headedness...indescision or just plain lost. Now i understand why they say tricksters only fool themselves.
What's with the closed-minded people trying to define her points as "wrong"??? I think you're the ones missing the point here ... there is no "obviously wrong," she's just exploring ideas and noticing how closed-minded we can be about whether they're right or wrong. Brilliant and funny!!!
Yes, it is good to be open-minded. But try to avoid being so open-minded that your mind falls out. Unfortunately, as funny as some of her jokes are, Emily seems to be lost a little crucial grey matter.
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I understand the premise. I get the idea of "The Trickster" as shaking up thinking and is not necessarily to be understood..
It just seemed to be poorly presented and didn't include any new ideas. I probably would have enjoyed it more live and in person. I'll try watching it again sometime, maybe I missed something.
And okay, it wasn't *completely* unfunny - there were a couple chucklers. :-|
Who was she talking about when she was talking about that disagreeable scientist... was it Richard Dawkins? Cuz I think he's the one who described the meme and also has a book called Selfish Gene, and also he's a cool scientist who doesn't stand for too much BS'ing around, so I can see how he'd get on her case.
Okay, wait do you see what you're saying? She lost you because she contradicted a belief you have that contradiction is good? That's funny. It would be different had you said you disagree, but you actually said, "She lost me when" so , that's funny. Maybe you're the same way?
I understood her comedic references. I thought it was a good presentation but I didnt think it was funny. It wasnt bad or anything its just not my brand of humor.
She has a lot of empathy, in front of a positive audience. However if you really think about it, her jokes are not that funny. I also felt that the talk had no direction and had not gotten to the point in a more explicit way, so I felt that you have to had her experience and be close to her career to understand her statement.
Yes, we can question rationality, as we can question almost everything. But there is grey color in everything too. I would still have a bias towards rationality thou....
@ThermalHD "Your" spelling leaves a lot to be desired. A few of her 'jokes' were funny, but most of her presentation was not laugh-inducing. I guess the audience is made of intelligent people only.
@manicdepressive88 Irrationalism is a major part of our philosophy and culture. Only scientists are foolish enough to think that only rationality can have value.
Some funny stuff, but her attacks on "newtonian physics" and "rationality" are pretty lame. Is she one of those post-modernist "all ideas are equal" philosophers?
"if they had an olympics in martyrdom, my grandmother would have lost on purpose" lol nice.
her comedy was alright, but she didn't rewire my thinking. and i'm not a big fan of continuing to call herself "the trickster", she isn't a superhero lol
@Mastikator Scientists have always been a natural target of tricksters. In theatre, the harlequin always made sport of another character, 'the doctor'. It was important that the trickster could win out over both knowledge and power. And it still is in my opinion.
hahahahahaha!!! if this wasn't funny to you, its because it went over your head. given, i stopped watching it halfway through.. but nonetheless you know what I mean! LOL
when she was talking about market PENETRATION and all the sex stuff it reminded me a lot of comedian George Carlin talking about War and how it's all about fucking with people:
Why does everything have to be useful and intellectual to be worthwhile? Whether you enjoy the humor or not, being sour about it is entirely unwarranted. Just let people laugh for Christ's sake.
It doesn't have to be, but this is TED "Ideas worth spreading", I didn't see anything worth spreading.
To me this decreases the idea of what TED's trying to do. If they do more of this kind of stuff where the speaker has very little point and it's completely useless "information", then you won't have TEDtalks, you'll just have stand up comedy nights.
Then you missed her main idea worth spreading looking at events, situations and language in multiple ways and through various perspectives will often open more opportunities for different, perhaps more meaningful, experiences in life.
It's interesting to see the comments that are critical of this woman's presentation. I thought it was brilliant, with some of her references beyond my understanding.
BTW, if you morphed "The Facts of Life"'s Mrs. Garrett (Charlotte Rae) into Lilly Tomlin and stopped the video in the middle you would have Emily Levine.
Levine's Fountainhead selection is out of context. The sexual act is meant to defy the social convention of the time; hence its violent nature. As to the reason why the motif carries over to Atlas Shrugged, the same contextual principles apply.
I found the comment she made about sometimes it takes outside people with little knowledge to show you that your own ideas are silly or not necessarily the best. People making fun of others allows them to think, "Oh anyway, why do I do this?" To CHVNX, think of self-hatred more as post-modernism. If you never question yourself, you could end up living an ineffective personality for the rest of your life.
I thought it was a justification for laziness. "I don't need to know anything about something in order to be just as much an expert as someone who has studied it intensely."
OK... So if some Jews aren't racist... then how can it be that their culture is? That just doesn't make sense. Are there two Jewish cultures - one racist, the other not? Where would the non-racist Jews have developed their ideas about non-racism from?
Here's another way of thinking about it: some racist Jews (and lets face it, there are racist people everywhere - yourself included), are able to find justification in their religion and culture for their beliefs. Others don't do this.
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The double standard which she put forth, mainly that non-Whites are allowed to mock White but Whites are not allowed is hypocritical and typical of a Jewish Supremacist.
You sound like some White idiot who's bought into anti0White hatred. I assume that you're so pathetic that you have no idea of your own ancestry, even. Are you a Jew? Do you think Jews are White? Think again.
Most jewish people would define themselves as white. How do I know? I'm from a jewish background and have many jewish friends.
Secondly, her double standard is to say that it is more acceptable for have nots to tease the haves. This I think is a fair point. You may argue that this implies Palestinians should therefore be able to tease the Israelis (NOT the Jews, there is a difference). I would agree.
Jews are different from Israelis are different from Zionists.
I know not all Zionists are Jews and not all Jews are Israelis, and that has nothing to do with the main fact that Jews are brought up in a racist and anti-White culture, both secular and religious. To deny this is to ignore the facts. Zionism and Judaism are only extensions of the real problem, and that is Jewish Supremacist culture.
Oh you're right. Sorry. You're fact with the word 'exactly' in it, and a percentage has convinced me that I'm wrong. I guess I'll just forget all my experiences of the HUNDREDS of jewish people I know, because you made a 'fact'. Well done.
I have no idea why I'm arguing with you. You're defining an entire group in a way that doesn't fit their physical appearance or personal identity, and then accusing THAT group of racism and being anti a group that they tend to identify with.
American Jews are not White, they are Jews. White skin is not synonymous with 'European", which is typically what is mean when people say White.
In regards to my stating it was factual, well, it is. I don;t need to argue my point, I've already made it. You didn't even bother to try and refute it because you can't.
It's obvious that you're not the brightest person in the "wordl" either.
Why is it OK? Do you have a problem with White people?
Regarding Jews and Judaism: Jews, especially secular Jews, are the people who push Zionism which is essentially Fascism based on race, just ask any Palestinian. This Jewess is deeply involved in the Jewish community and the Jewish culture is, without a doubt, the most racist and supremacist in the world. She, much like most Jews, are known for their anti-White hatred.
Although some of those idea's may be imbedded in old jewish culture, you know else well as i do that 99% or modern pracricing jews dont carry around those strong bias' and are as accepting as other races/religions
This is a lie. I do not believe it. On the face, Jews push race mixing and multiculturalism....except for their own. This is racism. This is based on Jewish Supremacy.
For example, most of Israel are secular Jews but are, without a doubt, the most systematically racist (stolen) Nation on the planet.
pc is never a good policy, I think, because it always seems everyone can use a good dose of critique and self-reflection. Like why not make fun of gangsta rap culture? They're a minority, but they identify themselves in opposition to majority and take it too seriously sometimes...or people like Kanye West (recent episode of South Park)
But what's with the refrain of people like her sending a warning to the scientific community about being rigid, etc? She spends all her time in right brain.
hmmm ,lots of people laughin cause there afraid that if they dont there friends will think they dont understand wtf she is on about.i reckon about 5 percent actually ubderstand her,god knows i aint got a clue.
The framework of Judaism is religious dogma that there is only one God that talks to his chosen people, the Jews; and teaches them how to deal with the Non-Jews, the Goym. Jewish Supremacy is at the core of this dogma, demonstrated through out the doctrine. The Talmud, which is a collection of Jewish laws and traditions promoting the Jewish race, states the Jews are humans and rest of you are Goym or animal in human form created by their tribal god to serve them.
strange: I get a lot of joy out of this kind of talk full of contradictions, but I also get an almost equal amount of joy from the vigorous arguments of the scientists. Explain that.
But what if settling on an idea is what makes us happy as humans? What if that's why there are so many religious people, not because something like God exists, but because we advanced apes need to settle on an idea as absolute truth to move forward? Even if it's temporary, in the present we never admit it's temporary. That's the game. Then a trickster comes along and makes it's interesting.
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lightandbeautiful 3 weeks ago
@Looperberg Your missing 70%? Well, I seem to be missing 90% lol
bossoholic 7 months ago
Studies show that 2% of the viewers for this video didn't know if they liked it or not.
mrbenderson005 9 months ago
shes too smart for me :/
L0n3c0mrade 10 months ago
A comedienne perhaps; a philosopher, not. If a china shop represented the universe of knowledge and ideas, she would be a clown acting like the proverbial bull.
otheus 1 year ago
@otheus
Why wouldn't you classify her as a philosopher?
Mu5clehead 1 year ago
@Mu5clehead How do you judge if someone in today's world is a 'philosopher', outside of the academic environment? Well, connecting ideas from the cosmos to the human condition is certainly one requirement, but after 2000 years of history of thought, one should at least also have an *accurate* or a *novel* understanding of those ideas. From what I can tell, she has neither. She either regurgitates or confounds ideas.
otheus 1 year ago
@otheus
People's opinions and judgments are an unreliable way of seeking knowledge.
That's true.
Mu5clehead 1 year ago
watched this many times, still not boring.
yuhui926 1 year ago
Ah, preaching the joy of wanting to have it all :)
In a very superficial way it was funny, in a more profound way I see it as highly insulting to human life. At least she admits to that from the very beginning :)
bogdanbelcea 1 year ago
She's just remarkable :)
TheDanielWooi 1 year ago
I can't get over the fact of how little importance her breathing dinamics has on her performance, which is also a very intriguing discourse on an alternative way of engaging reality. She's awesome.
pseudocuasithinker 1 year ago 2
damn , she's so hot
ytertyu 1 year ago
Love it! More love to the Tricksters!
molinmusic 1 year ago
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narcisists are fucked , turning this off, cuz she sais that, i know a woman narcisits, total bitch
ogskeetdizzle 1 year ago
I couldn't take my focus off of her breathing and snorting into the mic. If she could lose that habit she would be very good.
isthatblip 1 year ago
I adore her!!!!!!!
Triad3Force 2 years ago 4
She's really funny and i found her "poll contridictions" to be true
FlashandFire 2 years ago 4
I love a good Ayn Rand joke.
jacobromu 2 years ago 2
check louis ck re: white trash . . good good
hhiippiittyy 2 years ago
Very funny and insightful.
Only disagree with her statement of contradicting people's realities. Try talking to a fundamentalist. Especially one who has interests in politics as well.
hubustunk 2 years ago
No need to disagree.
Fundamentalists aren't people.
eatinpsilocybin 2 years ago
I really liked her performance, and I agree with her on a lot of points which made it all the better. I especially enjoyed how a lot of her jokes connected. It takes a very open thinker to create those kinds of acts I believe.
breakerx4d 2 years ago
I like Carlin... I liked her too, rehearsal or not, a lot of her material was good...
arun6004 2 years ago
I agree with some of her points but it just wasn't a good performance, in my opinion. George Carlin was a thinking man's comic and a trickster. He rehearsed his material over and over. Her performance is just awkward.
demonfelix 2 years ago 2
She leaves me utterly unimpressed.
ninanotturna 2 years ago
she has lots of good things to say, but snorts entirely too much when inhaling. i had to point that out as it was bothering the piss out of me.
ssandell9 2 years ago 8
@ssandell9 now i cant stop noticing it!
omallykaboose 1 year ago
@ssandell9 Half way through the video I didn't notice it, but then I read your comment... :D
hevikaru 3 months ago
Yes, trick them into connecting ideas to shift beyond what is now the norm to lift us all to new understandings.
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Baldingchimp 2 years ago
@RaiSaix:
It's not the same; not until we have a matriarchal society where rich white men are enslaved. You know, the exact opposite of that which makes the kind of relativism she talks about the most moral choice.
Maxstate 2 years ago
Her "objectification" of scientists, economists, and seizing the higher ground of "trixter" bugs me a bit. It's unnecessarily divisive. The TED audience, full of successful ground-breakers, agents of technical change, finds ways to bridge the gap, to find the inner trixter without abandoning intellect. She seems to get superiority mileage out of pretending that the two populations are distinct, that the trixter persona, herself, guides the otherwise blinkered scientists.
jebuff 2 years ago 5
@jebuff This is appropriate. The trixter isn't higher ground, so much as a joker or trump card. Note that she doesn't gain her credibility by saying she's a qualified trickster, but by laying out an alternative, non-conflictual hypothesis and presenting examples which are amusing. Every trickster knows serious work gets done by serious people. Their concern is when ideas or relationships get stuck. No trickster tries to occupy the throne. Nor do they offer solurions so much as critique.
leconfidant 2 months ago
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She's a minger.
winnie2990 2 years ago
I liked this talk. But I disagree that a woman making fun of a man is different than a man making fun of a women or a black person making fun or a white person is different than a white person makeing fun of a black person. They are the same and should be regarded as the same, in my opinion.
RaiSaix 2 years ago 2
I agree with you.
wsetrecords 2 years ago 3
what's she's saying is pretty interesting but she should do something about that snorting and breathing at the same time.
Maybe she should ask the scientists for help HA
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corymart1n3z 2 years ago
i very much like her attitude, it's just that she doesn't understand or contemplate what it's like to actually do science. for example, when she implies that scientists can't hold ideas lightly, she ignores the idea of a hypothesis. An important element of a hypothesis is that it should be openmindedly discarded or altered when new observations arrive. Recognition, rewiring. exactly what she extols. i suspect the trickster could be a good scientist as well if not for the cultural excuse.
itteration2 2 years ago 3
you'd be surprised how poorly the majroity of research psychologists especially behaviourists simply cannot understand their limits, and the confidence transfers into the people who read and incorrectly report on their 'findings', there is no self-awareness in the process adn its very obvious the way these proud creatures affect news and macrocosmic culture often negatively
tyrannicoystercult 2 years ago
@itteration2 On the contrary, people in the humanities understand hypothesis testing and statistical analysis pretty well. Scientists are much more unaware of the political, economic and cultural biases which lead them to choose the hypotheses and analyses they do. This is problematic because by the result is culture and science mutually affirming a delusion. It needs someone who can be outside of both to pull the carpet away.
leconfidant 2 months ago
@leconfidant as someone who sees, meets and talks to scientists 5 days a week, I can tell you that they are acutely aware of the social factors that affect their research. Your contention that they aren't is at odds with the really intelligent points that I've read from you on this page.
manicdepressive88 3 weeks ago
@manicdepressive88 Quite right, well said and my apologies.
I regularly come across science enthusiasts who take it as insist that all of science is an isolated process of hypothesis testing as they understood it in high school. They then take this 'certainty' to dismiss everything non-science as non-sense.
Perhaps science and humanities are equally vulnerable to the politics of funding and so on, though hard science has the luxury of occasionally unambiguous evidence.
leconfidant 3 weeks ago
@leconfidant Such is the problem with 16 year old biology students loudly championing the cause of science (I was a particularly obnoxious variant a few years ago).
As far as I'm concerned, scientists simply don't champion their own causes enough with the general public (not sure if it's indifference, a lack of respect or a tendency to play close to the vest after a lifetime of scarring peer-review)
It takes a big person to apologize and I appreciate it
manicdepressive88 3 weeks ago
From 17:20 to 17-30....I thought that would fall in the category of light-headedness...indescision or just plain lost. Now i understand why they say tricksters only fool themselves.
NyRamsey 2 years ago
What's with the closed-minded people trying to define her points as "wrong"??? I think you're the ones missing the point here ... there is no "obviously wrong," she's just exploring ideas and noticing how closed-minded we can be about whether they're right or wrong. Brilliant and funny!!!
SmashedP0tat0es 2 years ago
Yes, it is good to be open-minded. But try to avoid being so open-minded that your mind falls out. Unfortunately, as funny as some of her jokes are, Emily seems to be lost a little crucial grey matter.
Guaguanco11 2 years ago
To the critics--take a Vallium
225h 2 years ago
It's like a bad movie that I've watched too much of to shut off.
mora024 2 years ago
Why is this a TED Video ?
jaydesh9 2 years ago
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frane9r9r 2 years ago
Because it's interesting.
Nietzschttgenstein 2 years ago
@jaydesh9 Because a) It's genius and b), It's important and relevant.
leconfidant 2 months ago
I feel like im watching a roast on everything... spitfire
northnv 2 years ago
Eurgh.
p0rq 2 years ago
Why is this a TED Talk?
redpandacheese 2 years ago
redpandacheese to answer your question, this video falls in the E category for Entertainment in the acronym TED
frane9r9r 2 years ago
I guess I was just be facetious ;-)
redpandacheese 2 years ago
Education.
invisiblebears 2 years ago
'philosopher comedian' ...all comedians are philosophers.
snakeinthegrass20 2 years ago 4
I concur with tito2502.
NSMetalhead 2 years ago
This is hilarious only in the sense that she is consistently hilariously wrong.
TED brings the all-too-common childish approach to ideas into the mainstream.
tito2502 2 years ago 2
A new low for TED Talks.
ErikMartinsen81 2 years ago
Refreshing approach
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wow. ive never seen anything that ugly in my life.
winnie2990 2 years ago
Probably because you've never looked your own prejudices in the mirror
sunrisewalker 2 years ago 4
OOOOOH SNAP. nice one buddy ^^ put this arrogant/ignorant/naive fool in his place
bulboflight 2 years ago
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what kind of sence of humor do you have to have to find her funny at all?
monster755 2 years ago
An intelligent one... (and you spelled sense wrong)
saxonde68 2 years ago
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she looks like a ewok hahahaha
Shainao 2 years ago
Damn she is sexy.
stevieVantanna 2 years ago 4
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unfunny
uninteresting
mdiem 2 years ago
...are you sure you understood it?
;P
robbehqss 2 years ago
I understand the premise. I get the idea of "The Trickster" as shaking up thinking and is not necessarily to be understood..
It just seemed to be poorly presented and didn't include any new ideas. I probably would have enjoyed it more live and in person. I'll try watching it again sometime, maybe I missed something.
And okay, it wasn't *completely* unfunny - there were a couple chucklers. :-|
mdiem 2 years ago
If she was hot the presentation would be more interesting. It's true. It's a foundational premise of marketing.
JCYK90 2 years ago
Who was she talking about when she was talking about that disagreeable scientist... was it Richard Dawkins? Cuz I think he's the one who described the meme and also has a book called Selfish Gene, and also he's a cool scientist who doesn't stand for too much BS'ing around, so I can see how he'd get on her case.
dollaresque 2 years ago
this talk was so funny and cool... although i dont really understand were she was going with it : )
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Casmige 2 years ago
she lost me when she said that arguments are about contradiction and she does not want a serious argument.
saemj 2 years ago 2
Okay, wait do you see what you're saying? She lost you because she contradicted a belief you have that contradiction is good? That's funny. It would be different had you said you disagree, but you actually said, "She lost me when" so , that's funny. Maybe you're the same way?
jedimasterbooboo 2 years ago
i think it is more of a language problem ^^ I meant that i disagree.
saemj 2 years ago
I guess one has to be academic and philosophical to some extent to appreciate a talk like this, since it is a philosophical comedy after all.
tianjie1980 2 years ago
I understood her comedic references. I thought it was a good presentation but I didnt think it was funny. It wasnt bad or anything its just not my brand of humor.
rx72004fl 2 years ago
She has a lot of empathy, in front of a positive audience. However if you really think about it, her jokes are not that funny. I also felt that the talk had no direction and had not gotten to the point in a more explicit way, so I felt that you have to had her experience and be close to her career to understand her statement.
Yes, we can question rationality, as we can question almost everything. But there is grey color in everything too. I would still have a bias towards rationality thou....
chilenozo 2 years ago 3
who are these people laughing for no reason?
raguv2000 2 years ago 4
@raguv2000 your not intelligent enough to understand her jokes ;)
ThermalHD 1 year ago
@ThermalHD "Your" spelling leaves a lot to be desired. A few of her 'jokes' were funny, but most of her presentation was not laugh-inducing. I guess the audience is made of intelligent people only.
raguv2000 1 year ago
She's funny but her rejection of 'rationality' just because its rational is patently stupid.
So is talking at length about things you don't understand.
manicdepressive88 2 years ago 4
@manicdepressive88 Irrationalism is a major part of our philosophy and culture. Only scientists are foolish enough to think that only rationality can have value.
leconfidant 2 months ago
Some funny stuff, but her attacks on "newtonian physics" and "rationality" are pretty lame. Is she one of those post-modernist "all ideas are equal" philosophers?
penguinx42 2 years ago 6
I believe that the attack is a feminist argument. (I read about it in... Dawkins... maybe)
PS: argument that sounds quite absurd and self-exclusionist IMO
Greetings
cthulhex 2 years ago
ya good man.
cooleyballs 2 years ago
"if they had an olympics in martyrdom, my grandmother would have lost on purpose" lol nice.
her comedy was alright, but she didn't rewire my thinking. and i'm not a big fan of continuing to call herself "the trickster", she isn't a superhero lol
sixpackspy 2 years ago 2
Post modernism might not be best discussed in serious conversation, as she says. It isn't to be taken seriously at all.
variablog 2 years ago 3
Excellent! I've never heard of Emily Levine. Now I'll be seeking out more of her material. The trickster is one of my favorite "characters". :)
WhiteTiger333 2 years ago
Funny ...
Sonyoooo3 2 years ago
"YOU SOUND SEXXXXXAAAYYYY!!!"
hillarious lol ;)
RoGiPiCtUrEs1 2 years ago 5
The Trickster is The Right Brain; The Left Brain is The Matrix
GodMechanism 2 years ago 2
erh..... 6 minutes into the video...i dont...get more than half the things she says...but everyone in the audience r laughing...T.T
jakylili 2 years ago
trickster is a catalyst
maqman123 2 years ago 2
She is brilliant!
ehvee1 2 years ago
hate the way she breathes in like that
DSBrekus 2 years ago 3
Ah! I wish I hadn't read your comment! All I can hear is her breathing!!
Berglekutt 2 years ago
sorry dude :P
DSBrekus 2 years ago
don't smoke and watch this she will just turn into charlie browns teacher waahh waahh waahh , and ted talks are ussualy mezmorizing
theprojucer 2 years ago 2
I have no response to this
thunderpants10 2 years ago
She didn't short-circuit or rewire my thinking.
tantzer 2 years ago 2
It's interesting how these videos get such high ratings even with so many negative comments
Cannibalzz 2 years ago 2
Definitely more comedian than philosopher.
And even that's debatable.
Guncriminal 2 years ago 5
This was intresting but I wonder, what does she have against scientists?
Mastikator 2 years ago
Its a relique of older days...
there was a time when postmodernism wasnt "stablishment", and you were "cool" if you trashed scientists.
now its the other way around...
osofrontinoquantico 2 years ago 2
@Mastikator Scientists have always been a natural target of tricksters. In theatre, the harlequin always made sport of another character, 'the doctor'. It was important that the trickster could win out over both knowledge and power. And it still is in my opinion.
leconfidant 2 months ago
"lingua franca"... lingua this frankie. good stuff.
baronmorris 2 years ago 3
At least this idiot mentions Ayn Rand.
WarVideo 2 years ago
She's amusing and interesting but not funny. I have yet to see a funny girl comedian. Plus the snorting was kind of irritating.
atypicalguy 2 years ago
@atypicalguy: Sarah Silverman, but thats about it.
This one is not really that funny..
MisterWeed 2 years ago
I understand the jokes but this talk isn't THAT funny.. this audience is way too easy.
han666 2 years ago
hahahahahaha!!! if this wasn't funny to you, its because it went over your head. given, i stopped watching it halfway through.. but nonetheless you know what I mean! LOL
BabyWhaleNutz 2 years ago
when she was talking about market PENETRATION and all the sex stuff it reminded me a lot of comedian George Carlin talking about War and how it's all about fucking with people:
watch?v=sDkhzHQO7jY
roidroid 2 years ago 4
Was anybody else thinking of The Joker the entire time throughout this talk?
I am an agent of chaos/change.
CirqueDuCloud 2 years ago
Wow, this is the least useful TEDtalk I've seen yet. Are they running out of people with worthwhile ideas?
Really brings my perception of these talks way down.
uriahsw 2 years ago
wow really? I thought she was absolutely brilliant.
Radjehuty 2 years ago
Shes an academic philosopher, what do you expect?
WarVideo 2 years ago
Why does everything have to be useful and intellectual to be worthwhile? Whether you enjoy the humor or not, being sour about it is entirely unwarranted. Just let people laugh for Christ's sake.
Promatheos 2 years ago 4
It doesn't have to be, but this is TED "Ideas worth spreading", I didn't see anything worth spreading.
To me this decreases the idea of what TED's trying to do. If they do more of this kind of stuff where the speaker has very little point and it's completely useless "information", then you won't have TEDtalks, you'll just have stand up comedy nights.
uriahsw 2 years ago
Then you missed her main idea worth spreading looking at events, situations and language in multiple ways and through various perspectives will often open more opportunities for different, perhaps more meaningful, experiences in life.
JohnHasSeriousQ 2 years ago
You missed something.
TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) <--
I found this very entertaining, and I think many would agree that this talk is indeed worth spreading.
PsykoPatrik 2 years ago 4
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cosign. this bitch is boring
shakeyourdimsims 2 years ago
man I would love to have lunch with her and talk about this topic
seanarrative 2 years ago 2
It's interesting to see the comments that are critical of this woman's presentation. I thought it was brilliant, with some of her references beyond my understanding.
wcduke 2 years ago 5
LOL too many times to count.
And loads of (way subtle and woven deeply) brilliant points of connection made.
davidpaynewise 2 years ago
This is very unimpressive for a TED talk. She made more jokes (that weren't even that funny) than interesting points.
All religions (especially orthodox) are fairly racist as they are ancient institutions.
Also, her breathing noises are disgusting.
JoeWinU235 2 years ago
did she mention religion? i didn't hear it...
so all ancient things must be racist? and all things modern are not racist?
justforwatchingcraps 2 years ago
Your intolerance for the process of aging is disgusting.
akaCharlieG 2 years ago
Get old Man.
WarVideo 2 years ago
22:15 the probablilty of a man walking in front of a ted cam
farhmoha 2 years ago
Good call... lol
flashbuilding 2 years ago
Brilliant!!!
BTW, if you morphed "The Facts of Life"'s Mrs. Garrett (Charlotte Rae) into Lilly Tomlin and stopped the video in the middle you would have Emily Levine.
OneoftheImmortals 2 years ago
Levine's Fountainhead selection is out of context. The sexual act is meant to defy the social convention of the time; hence its violent nature. As to the reason why the motif carries over to Atlas Shrugged, the same contextual principles apply.
nofx221984 2 years ago
lol, i understood most of the references, only some i actually didnt' understand probably cause of cutural things they only know haha
takasta 2 years ago
I found the comment she made about sometimes it takes outside people with little knowledge to show you that your own ideas are silly or not necessarily the best. People making fun of others allows them to think, "Oh anyway, why do I do this?" To CHVNX, think of self-hatred more as post-modernism. If you never question yourself, you could end up living an ineffective personality for the rest of your life.
LudicrousTachyon 2 years ago
I thought it was a justification for laziness. "I don't need to know anything about something in order to be just as much an expert as someone who has studied it intensely."
But then again, what do I know?
JohnJ2427 2 years ago
I've always wondered how liberals justify their hatred of non-liberals. This explains so much.
JohnJ2427 2 years ago
"Jewish culture is, without a doubt, the most racist and supremacist in the world."
You have just defined a whole people as racist. You don't see any irony in that approach? No inconsistency at all?
misterstogy 2 years ago
Jewish culture is racist. It is a fundamental part of Judaism and Jewish up bringing. Not all Jews are racist, but Jewish culture sure is.
CHVNX 2 years ago
OK... So if some Jews aren't racist... then how can it be that their culture is? That just doesn't make sense. Are there two Jewish cultures - one racist, the other not? Where would the non-racist Jews have developed their ideas about non-racism from?
Here's another way of thinking about it: some racist Jews (and lets face it, there are racist people everywhere - yourself included), are able to find justification in their religion and culture for their beliefs. Others don't do this.
misterstogy 2 years ago 2
Simply stating an opinion, namely that you sound like some idiot who's bought into anti-White hatred. Self hatred.
CHVNX 2 years ago
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The double standard which she put forth, mainly that non-Whites are allowed to mock White but Whites are not allowed is hypocritical and typical of a Jewish Supremacist.
You sound like some White idiot who's bought into anti0White hatred. I assume that you're so pathetic that you have no idea of your own ancestry, even. Are you a Jew? Do you think Jews are White? Think again.
CHVNX 2 years ago
just a few points CHVNX:
Most jewish people would define themselves as white. How do I know? I'm from a jewish background and have many jewish friends.
Secondly, her double standard is to say that it is more acceptable for have nots to tease the haves. This I think is a fair point. You may argue that this implies Palestinians should therefore be able to tease the Israelis (NOT the Jews, there is a difference). I would agree.
Jews are different from Israelis are different from Zionists.
tiswas666 2 years ago
Exactly 0% of Jews, converts aside, are White.
I know not all Zionists are Jews and not all Jews are Israelis, and that has nothing to do with the main fact that Jews are brought up in a racist and anti-White culture, both secular and religious. To deny this is to ignore the facts. Zionism and Judaism are only extensions of the real problem, and that is Jewish Supremacist culture.
CHVNX 2 years ago
Oh you're right. Sorry. You're fact with the word 'exactly' in it, and a percentage has convinced me that I'm wrong. I guess I'll just forget all my experiences of the HUNDREDS of jewish people I know, because you made a 'fact'. Well done.
I have no idea why I'm arguing with you. You're defining an entire group in a way that doesn't fit their physical appearance or personal identity, and then accusing THAT group of racism and being anti a group that they tend to identify with.
tiswas666 2 years ago 2
American Jews are not White, they are Jews. White skin is not synonymous with 'European", which is typically what is mean when people say White.
In regards to my stating it was factual, well, it is. I don;t need to argue my point, I've already made it. You didn't even bother to try and refute it because you can't.
It's obvious that you're not the brightest person in the "wordl" either.
CHVNX 2 years ago
It's factual.
CHVNX 2 years ago
Why is it OK? Do you have a problem with White people?
Regarding Jews and Judaism: Jews, especially secular Jews, are the people who push Zionism which is essentially Fascism based on race, just ask any Palestinian. This Jewess is deeply involved in the Jewish community and the Jewish culture is, without a doubt, the most racist and supremacist in the world. She, much like most Jews, are known for their anti-White hatred.
Read some Jewish literature and see for yourself.
CHVNX 2 years ago
Although some of those idea's may be imbedded in old jewish culture, you know else well as i do that 99% or modern pracricing jews dont carry around those strong bias' and are as accepting as other races/religions
angus12345 2 years ago
This is a lie. I do not believe it. On the face, Jews push race mixing and multiculturalism....except for their own. This is racism. This is based on Jewish Supremacy.
For example, most of Israel are secular Jews but are, without a doubt, the most systematically racist (stolen) Nation on the planet.
CHVNX 2 years ago
just because you believe something does NOT make it a truth. you obviously have incorrect, preconceived notions about Jews that are absolutely false.
Please keep your lies and hate away
cripple1313 2 years ago
pc is never a good policy, I think, because it always seems everyone can use a good dose of critique and self-reflection. Like why not make fun of gangsta rap culture? They're a minority, but they identify themselves in opposition to majority and take it too seriously sometimes...or people like Kanye West (recent episode of South Park)
But what's with the refrain of people like her sending a warning to the scientific community about being rigid, etc? She spends all her time in right brain.
theseanze 2 years ago
OH god this lady cracks me up.
ratholin 2 years ago
hmmm ,lots of people laughin cause there afraid that if they dont there friends will think they dont understand wtf she is on about.i reckon about 5 percent actually ubderstand her,god knows i aint got a clue.
cooleyballs 2 years ago
Yes. I do, indeed.
The framework of Judaism is religious dogma that there is only one God that talks to his chosen people, the Jews; and teaches them how to deal with the Non-Jews, the Goym. Jewish Supremacy is at the core of this dogma, demonstrated through out the doctrine. The Talmud, which is a collection of Jewish laws and traditions promoting the Jewish race, states the Jews are humans and rest of you are Goym or animal in human form created by their tribal god to serve them.
CHVNX 2 years ago
This Jewess clearly states that she thinks non-Whites making fun of Whites is OK.
This is sickening.
CHVNX 2 years ago
its all them god dam negros and hippies fault!! GOD DAMN HIPPIES!!!
chunkybutt420 2 years ago
No, it's the fault of the Jewish culture which permits Jewish Supremacism and anti-Goym attitudes.
CHVNX 2 years ago
It was good, she's very clever and it got me thinking a little which is probably one of the main reasons I watch these.
Saesegral 2 years ago
BEST SPEACH EVER!
VeryAwesomeVids 2 years ago
Speech
MichealNBurress 2 years ago
Nice, Fresh & Funny! Love it!
Airave 2 years ago
Loved this one! 6/5 stars, dammit!
Truthiness231 2 years ago
strange: I get a lot of joy out of this kind of talk full of contradictions, but I also get an almost equal amount of joy from the vigorous arguments of the scientists. Explain that.
Joshbuckler 2 years ago
But what if settling on an idea is what makes us happy as humans? What if that's why there are so many religious people, not because something like God exists, but because we advanced apes need to settle on an idea as absolute truth to move forward? Even if it's temporary, in the present we never admit it's temporary. That's the game. Then a trickster comes along and makes it's interesting.
noctus 2 years ago 4
Best comment I've read all day.
zombiesmasher 2 years ago
Oh boy. Apparently it doesnt take much to make smart people laugh.
Cannibalzz 2 years ago