>The thing about TED is, wild-eyed though it may be, it's not a political agenda. Actually it very very much reeks of political agenda from miles away. There

>The thing about TED is, wild-eyed though it may be, it's not a political agenda. Actually it very very much reeks of political agenda from miles away. There are few things more political (in that they have very specific political consequences) than denouncing politics and trying to present yourself or your activities as apolitical. Presenting technology as beyond or above politics is even worse. >If you are used to seeing life through a political lens (as we might hazard the New Republic does) then TED looks like an agenda by a different name. Politics is the ideas behind our actions: what we want our actions to achieve and how we want to shape the future. So you cannot escape politics, it's not merely "seeing things through a political lens". Things are inherently political. It would be like saying we should not see things through a "reality lens". Reality is inescapable.