This, and it bears saying that _being_ elite is going to change your outlook. TED is great for what it is - trying to gather the "best of the best" and get the

This, and it bears saying that _being_ elite is going to change your outlook. TED is great for what it is - trying to gather the "best of the best" and get their messages out. Worthy ideas can come from far more humble and marginal groups of people, too. But those groups get less backing, so of course there's going to be a division.