SIMPLE: TED world is made up of thousands of speakers. Some are completely and sincerely excellent, informative, and inspiring. Some are mediocre or are smart

SIMPLE: TED world is made up of thousands of speakers. Some are completely and sincerely excellent, informative, and inspiring. Some are mediocre or are smart but pretentious and mostly hot air. Some are really lousy. To judge TED on the basis of a misc. selection of talks isn't all that useful. The difference in quality and value between the best TED talks and the lousiest is HUGE. We should not trash great value just because a bunch of lousy stuff is mixed in.