The Revolt against TED « NYU Development Research Institute

The Revolt against TED « NYU Development Research Institute

That solving any of their favorite global problems would require political solutions—if only to ensure that nobody’s rights and interests are violated or overlooked in the process— is not something that the TED elite, with its aversion to conventional instruments of power and its inebriated can-do attitude, likes to hear. ….TED’s techno-humanitarians—{are nother} brigade of what the Nigerian-American writer Teju Cole has dubbed “The White Savior Industrial Complex.”

TED can act as a V elite that brings together ideas to cooperate and synthesize new ones, this is like the V leaves of a tree that feed the R prey, like the poor people of the world. The V wealthy often give money and ideas like this.