TED offered a vision of the world where complex societal issues could be solved with a lightbulb moment and a well-designed PowerPoint presentation.
Climate change? There's an app for that.
Poverty? A social entrepreneur with a TED talk has it figured out.
It was a worldview that flattered millennials' sense of ourselves as changemakers while conveniently ignoring the systemic barriers to real change.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/ted-talks-the-picotop-of-millennial-pop-intellectualism
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