Name: TEDx】妄想の言葉。ヴィータ・マティス、TEDxRiga 2013にて (【TEDx】The language of delusion: Vita Matiss at TEDxRiga 2013)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T04:59:43.000Z
Duration: 20 min 22 s
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Let me guess why most of you are here in the audience today.

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You are here today because you expect to learn something new.

You are here today because you expect to be inspired,

Although there were a couple of guys there,

during the coffee break just now, that I saw that looked like

they were here mainly for the coffee breaks, (Chuckles)

and the lovely, young and intelligent ladies

A perfectly valid reason and expectation, I might add.

that you are going to be subjected to a parade

you did not come here with the expectation

or worse yet, are deliberately trying to mislead you.

This is, after all, a TED conference, right?

seemingly innocuous, form of escapism called the cinema --

even though we're all sitting here today,

or standing, as the case may be, in a cinema hall,

that's the actual name of this place. Very nice, isn't it?

But before you get too comfortable in your Splendid Palace seats,

My intention here today is to make you uncomfortable,

and pay attention to what is being said, to how it is being said,

that our democracies today are disintegrating,

precisely because citizens prefer to sit back,

prefer to sit back and watch colorful moving pictures,

prefer not to exercise their critical faculties,

prefer not even to develop such critical faculties.

to absorb the ideas of that bloviating pundit on TV, isn't it?

I am concerned that we are becoming shallower as a species,

I'm concerned as our vocabularies shrink,

as the word "awesome" becomes a one-size-fits-all term,

good for describing both your breakfast bacon

our capacity and range of thought shrinks as well --

with disastrous effects for our democracies.

George Orwell warned us already, back in 1948,

in his famous book: "Nineteen Eighty-Four" --

that the title of the book was chosen, the title "Nineteen Eighty-Four",

not because George Orwell thought that 1984

was precisely the year that all these horrible things

but that the number "1984" was just an inversion

of the actual year in which the book was written: 1948.

In any case, Orwell warned us not only about Big Brother,

but also introduced a new language, which he called Newspeak;

and the range of consciousness always a little bit smaller."

used by Big Brother to control the people.

Now, if you lived in this part of the world during Soviet times,

Newspeak was just not a made-up language in a book of fiction,

"The prevailing dialectics of development."

"The irreversible progress of socioeconomic transformations."

"The maximally complete satisfaction of the needs of the people."

to the sections of a prefabricated hen house

that you could stack together and tack together in any order,

without any concern for their actual meaning.

But tell me, did Newspeak really disappear with the fall of the Wall?

I don't know about you, but I watched with great amusement,

but also dismay, as former communist party members

who where used to repeating phrases, prefabricated phrases,

like "the prevailing dialectics of development",

once they saw the European Union opportunities approaching,

they switched seamlessly to parroting prefabricated phrases like:

"sustainable development within the framework of social inclusion".

I believe the European Union played a very, very positive role

in putting Europe back on its feet after World War II,

and I fully support Latvia's membership in the European Union,

but there is something very, very wrong with an organization

whose language has become, or come to resemble,

the prefabricated meaninglessness of Newspeak, or worse.

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TEDx】妄想の言葉。ヴィータ・マティス、TEDxRiga 2013にて (【TEDx】The language of delusion: Vita Matiss at TEDxRiga 2013)

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