And now, 8 year later, we are analyzing this speech in the university.

@evmuid7937

Жыл бұрын

hmm🙃, same here

That was one of the absolute best TED talks I have ever seen/heard. A lot more people need to see this. Thanks so much for sharing.

He had some insight...this is much more evident in 2019.

@hkoreja

5 жыл бұрын

Exactly

When Russian troops invaded Ukraine a few days ago, something emerged. Some Russian troops were hesitant to attack Ukrainian civilians, because of this sense of shared destiny. True war has no rules - the goal is to annihilate and occupy territory, yet some Russian troops showed restraint. The bonds that tie Russian and Ukrainian families are stronger than their leaders' ambitions.

Well thought out and convincingly put.

One of the better TED talks in a while. *like*

Some very interesting views and information!

Every nation must work to become agriculturally and economically self-sufficient. World trade was supposed to add the spice of life, but not to dominate it. In a one world order the voice of the individual is silenced and we will be forced to live by the philosophies of organized lobbyists, special interests, and secular humanist/ postmodernists values. It is already happening now and we must know that a man's philosophy can rule the world and we must be carefull to which philosophy rules us.

A fantastically interesting discussion

R.I.P. Paddy Ashdown.

Fantastic speech. This man was a national treasure.

Perhaps the most twisted part about this presentation is that he speaks with such authority and confidence.

No, and I will shed blood to see it never happening.

look at the date, he predicted the arab spring? What is the other paradigm shift we are facing in the industrialized world? I do not necessarily agree with his worries, but I understand how he reaches those conclusions. Some of his worries are "bad weather" that you adapt to and keep on moving. If you are talking Treaties as a sort of contract, he may have a concept. Governments are not very good at keeping contracts.....

I felt I could keep up the first 3-4 minutes then I was lost for the next 7-8 minutes, but felt I kinda came back and was on board for the ending.

I don't know why there's so much contention on this video. He's making a great point about the WORLD and how it is so interrelated. Stop focusing on blaming and banking and problems, and decide a good course of action for yourself from where you are now into the future. Vote well, participate, do good, work hard, work together, be diligent, expect nothing free, and work for the good of others as well as yourself. That's what I heard out of this.

well said!

its not the climb up the mountain that makes you weary, its the grain of sand in your shoe.

@Mapfiable It's not about the length - in the earlier videos the intro was way too loud, that's why people started posted the link to 0:15.

Amd now we are seeing this infront of our sights.

A truly brilliant man.

2023 is just a day away and the shift is more apparent than ever in my 40 years on this earth

So true for today's world !

well done Paddy Ashdown that was powerful stuff

@1madaboutguitar could you give a few quotes of his "Orwellian double speak"?

@Finiras How about power to the people? The problem is we are too dependent on corporations, banks, and big government. We have the technology to do EVERYTHING and I mean EVERYTHING on a local, county and provincial level. There is no reason to give up our national and personal sovereignty to a global government.

This is why I subscribe to tedtalks

great public speaker

May you Rest In Peace Paddy

This guy is spot on!!!

Thank you Paddy Ashdown, Bosnia and Bosniaks will remember you! RIP!

@nitram12345 I don't understand. I want to-- Are you saying he's "suggesting" with physical cues? (i don't know a ton about NLP, or whatever.) What is it you're seeing? Thanks..

Speaker has great vision

Awesome Speech .!

A community with a shared future for mankind.

@Biktuh Hear hear. I actually stopped watching TED for a while because I was almost afraid to see what scam artist or war criminal they would parade on stage next. Al Gore, Thomas Barnett, Gordon Brown!!?? There should be a rule that if you aren't going to talk about pragmatic solutions, don't talk at all. We have enough pundits and politicians - what we need is more talks by innovators like those that TED featured and built its reputation on.

Unfortunately I think some of the depth of the talk was lost on me. I'll have to come back in a few weeks and give it another shot.

amen to that

The effects of this are evident already in our daily lives. Many thanks for this informative talk.

i would enjoy this if i didn't have to watch this for a school assigment.

He's a good public speaker.

And I was thinking this talk is about electricity. :D Good talk, nevertheless.

@SarahChambersAudios Can I get the anxiety self hypnosis? :) Thanks!

@soulsanctuarymusic1 thanks for summing up. Now I spared 20 minutes of me life.

His message aside.. He is a very good speaker.

I hope we move toward voluntarism

This is what you call 'generalism'. It's not a bad thing, he paints the picture in really broad strokes and describes large trends and parallels. It gives you a context to place more specific ideas in.

"Where power goes, governance must follow" - And where is governed, there too goes power.

@soulsanctuarymusic1 thanks for the summary.

Rip paddy. Never agreed on anything but horrible near Christmas time. Thoughts are with your family and friends x

@owenking8662

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this. As a friend of his, I can say that we often disagreed about policies, but I have never met a more genuine or principled man. He is a loss that I shall feel for a long time to come.

@karllattimer9233

5 жыл бұрын

@@owenking8662 no worries buddy. Completely opposite politically but seemed like a genuine lovely guy. Sorry for your loss buddy x

Wherever you see enemies, you'll create war and conflict. I think we should start seeing nations as peers. We all have our own interests but if we could have a more cooperative and less competitive way of dealing with things we would be all better off. Unfortunately those who are in charge always want to keep their power, because that's the only thing they know and have been trained for. I hope that the Network Shift will redistribute wealth and power more evenly between nations and people.

@HempForPresident That is truly too much. I thank you for your words. Good day to you.

@katakanadian He mentions Kyoto agreement. Think he does mention the environment as a global issue.

Pre-watching preaction: I hope this is about the shift of power from nation-states to super-national corporations...

No surprises here. He was a participant at the 1989 Bilderberg meeting.

@thinkchip That's quickly becoming an infamous percentage...

@LandDestroyerReport What I heard was something slightly different-- that the bankers/speculators/corporations have enormous power, are interconnected and interdependent, and that to survive the future, they are going to have to be bound to a global governance. Maybe they are the ones to create that governance, maybe not, but it is in their own self interest to do so because if they don't, someone else will, and the result will be less to their liking.

@LowEndBCC Yeah, I was just trying to make the point that the traditionally isolationist Libertarians wouldn't like some of the points Ashdown makes in this clip.

Why does he bring up the symphonies of Nielson at the beginning? WHY?

@thedescanteer I'm taking nothing at face value, but I do agree with him. The way things stand now is that if a single nation state imposes tougher sanctions on financial operations - capping bonuses, splitting commercial and retail banking, increasing tax etc. The whole banking sector will simply up sticks and move to another country that provides them with no restrictions. Ppl don't realise that in my country (UK) the whole country is supported by this sector, we can't afford to see them go.

He's talking Mcgraw-Hill history not Howard Zinn history.

@bicyclist2

7 жыл бұрын

Amen.

@user-ov4cj9yp9k

4 жыл бұрын

very true.

I never knew mercantilist was pronounced that way, thank you youtube.

I would disagree that power moving vertically (from 'nation-state' to globalization) is 'new'. Certainly the scale, but its not too different from Kingdom to Republic, or City-State to Kingdom.

Now we need to understand the whole picture of the planet and be able to explain this to those that don't understand it. Welcome the Enlightenment is going to be a rocky ride.

@soulsanctuarymusic1 It's not the best TED i've watched because you are quite right to say that 18 Minutes of content can be boiled down to about two sentences of not new information! But I do agree with it's sentiment.

@SarahChambersAudios I did but I already knew all this. But I like your channel though, I am going try some.

Thinking big in a practical way. Well I guess its easy when you're old and don't have to put the work into the change you envision. Great talk though.

@hypnozecat A 20 minute speech versus a 300 year-old catch phrase. We are living in a very different world than Franklin knew. Problems go global as systems are intertwined. Liberties come with responsabilities. You surely have a quote from Franklin about that, right?

Anglo saxon dominance needed to end

Fortune Cookie: "Destiny is shared with your enemy."

wow.

Great talk. I hope we soon realize that we are all trapped on the same boat. If it sinks we are all fucked.

@Durchbrechen I don't think he's saying whether or not it will work, but rather we have no choice but try a global "government", since there is no such thing as a singular nation anymore - we are all interconnected, and we can't undo it, and we can't go on as we have been, becuase that will fail. I think his talk boils down to this - we do not merge, and we will fail. We merge, and maybe we won't fail. That's what I gathered. And everything in life has a risk of failure, no matter what it is.

@ehpl voting sensibly is about doing the best you can to see sustainable long term good results, not just short run thinking. Yes, people can be that. And yes, that has been a historical case in the location of power and the reality of power distance. But do you NOT REALIZE that Ashdown is saying that as power shifts (changes foundations) if it shifts the way he's proposing it will be shifting, it will require teamwork (interrelation). That CLOSES THE POWER DISTANCE. The opposite of what you say

@AlastairCunning I suggest you read the documents calling, almost verbatim for what Ashdown is talking about - Agenda 21, Brookings Institution reports, the Project for a New American Century, etc. Then go watch this talk again - it will be like watching a completely different speech and this time you will actually fully understand what he is saying.

"People may act free of restraint". Westerners in their folly often castigate societies where restraint is imposed through cultural norms.

Interconnected and being dependent on each other means that we are easier to control by one single entity called 'The Global Governance'.

the shifts in intimacy...

@PhonoDuck a senator is on record stating that for every &\$1 the US 'donates' to the UN for 'assisting' developing countries US corporations rake in $1.60. Meanwhile, a boy in Africa cannot store rainwater because a corporation has bought the right to rainwater in his country, and people die in fires because they canot afford the water to put the flames out. If you don't believe search it up: Blue Gold, World Water Wars.

P. Ashdown did not demontrate neither heart nor mind on Bosnia. It was not easy task. But he could explain causes of his failure, because Bosnia is a Living metaphor ..

@sevenahm Maximizing personal freedoms inevitably involves stomping on other peoples freedoms. This is the fine balance between freedom and fairness. Do you want a society in which luck largely dictates your lot in life or one which strives to give people an equal opportunity? It's all a matter of empathy. Personally I think we should just take all the anarchists, dump them on an island and say "There! Do whatever you want just leave the rest of us alone!".

I started off being on this guys side.. Started rolling my eyes at 9/11, started getting disagreeable with his blind support of World Bank and IMF, and got pretty darn upset when he glorified the G20. And never even came back to explain how the 20 most powerful people in the world making decisions behind closed doors, can and have caused GREAT imbalance in the worlds societal structure. He seems blissfully unaware that they have no allegiance to any flag, only themselves, and their power.

The message I hear between the lines in this video is again that government will take care of us, we don't need to do much except support our government's creation of more treaties that will overrule constitutional law and curtail individual freedoms. I strongly disagree and it makes me want to separate myself with mainstream society and politics even more than I already have, and set up my life to maximize my freedom as much as possible.

@kadayo My previous comment as well as this one does not contain any derogative term against you. Hence there isn't any intent of fighting anyone. We're exchanging ideas. And my take is that to merge means others' liabilities become YOUR liabilities. As you see English is not my mother tongue and I thought that the old idiom about money and tongue isn't derogative but I did put the smile in the doubt.

@thinkchip Yes, I'm all for making that governance consistent with the liking and benefit of the "99%". I just don't think that's realistic in the short term (say the next decade or so) because too much of the larger system needs to change. Until then, pragmatism suggests the 1% will have to have some enlightened self interest if they want to survive.

No, not really. If you study the military procurement patterns of every country on earth, deployment patterns, equipment purchase decisions, etc., you can work out what the balance of power is likely to be in twenty years. That's because most weapons systems have gestation cycles - design to operational service of about twenty years. Of course, you have to factor economic/currency stability and political stability - but it is possible to do this.

@gamegloss You are watching their TV Channel.

@Mapfiable There's no need for that anymore, they fixed the intro.

@PhonoDuck The appointing of Goldman Sac advisers and executives to replace Greece and Italy is a perfect example of this. Donald Rummsfeld's glorious career throughout the government and his institution of countless policies that hae supported big food are just another example. The harmonizing of government and corporation is currently going the other way, with the regulations put in place that exempt these power brokers. Meanwhile we sit and argue the government is helping us when..

That was so beautifully presented and very interesting. Probably the best TEDtalk I've ever heard and almost exclusively interested in science, not political science.

Government is more effective at the point closest to the people. IMF, WTO, etc have made things worse.

2022 it’s happening

@PhonoDuck I agre in what you are sayin but I do have a problem when he adresses good and bad within the complete subject. When he says "our enemies", "we" he is talking about a distinction between the ones doing it "right" and the ones who oppose his "we"!!! When those oposing the system (bad people) should be consider as a result of the same system we use. We can not be radical on the idea of good and bad; that is all i'm trying to say. Difficult to express this on few words and english!

We the people and a fairly elected UN must happen in order for true order to happen; and freedoms we take for granted today are not destroyed via governance by treaties, Why? Due to the profit motive of corporations who wish for just enough pollution, waste, and other unsavory environmental and/or criminal actions (like 9/11 or drug trade) to fund more of the same.

that was really good...

As seen from space,our blue marble without borders may one day be a reality !

amazing and accurate

It is technology that brought the current paradigm shift. Technology will continue to heavily influence all visions of the future. And since technological advances continue to accelerate exponentially NO ONE can predict the future. But - it is certain that smaller and smaller groups, as well as individuals have been becoming and will continue to become more powerful

@AlastairCunning Plenty of people in politics are genuine and would give their life for their cause - as do soldiers. I don't doubt your conviction or your resolve. But did you read the documents I told you to? The elite and those in the upper echelons of government that serve them are not on the same page you are - not even in the same book my friend. Boeing is a war profiteer - they also have some of the best engineers - with the greatest intentions on earth.

It's been a while since TED has had a talk matching the magnitude of kickass shown here!