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Megan Sullivan

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
381 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

TED Radio Hour
Using ancient philosophy to cope with your modern problems

Like you're relevant and your values are going to direct the kind of world that we build with this.

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Using ancient philosophy to cope with your modern problems

Absolutely.

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Using ancient philosophy to cope with your modern problems

And what are you going to give all of your information to?

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Using ancient philosophy to cope with your modern problems

What are you going to put into your email?

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Using ancient philosophy to cope with your modern problems

What are you going to put in front of your children?

TED Radio Hour
Using ancient philosophy to cope with your modern problems

It's totally in the interest of politicians and very powerful corporate leaders today.

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Using ancient philosophy to cope with your modern problems

to make you feel like you have no choice.

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Using ancient philosophy to cope with your modern problems

You just have to do what we are putting in front of you.

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Using ancient philosophy to cope with your modern problems

But at the end of the day, one of the upshots of capitalism is if enough users decide, I don't want this.

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Using ancient philosophy to cope with your modern problems

I do not value your product.

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Using ancient philosophy to cope with your modern problems

I value this other product instead.

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Using ancient philosophy to cope with your modern problems

I want things to go this way rather than that way.

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Using ancient philosophy to cope with your modern problems

You know, there's power in the purse.

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Using ancient philosophy to cope with your modern problems

There's power in a democracy to vote, and there's power in capitalism to say, not my money.

TED Radio Hour
Using ancient philosophy to cope with your modern problems

And so as long as we have that kind of shred of freedom, then one of the most important things we can do, I think, right now is remind the sort of vast sea of users that they have moral agency.

TED Radio Hour
Using ancient philosophy to cope with your modern problems

And that they have a vision of what a good life is for them and for their children and what kind of local community they want to live in and what kind of country they want to live in.

TED Radio Hour
Using ancient philosophy to cope with your modern problems

They still have some choice and they've got to figure out what their vision for the good is now that this technology is going to be a part of the rest of our lives.

TED Radio Hour
Using ancient philosophy to cope with your modern problems

No, me too.

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Using ancient philosophy to cope with your modern problems

I'll tell you what, Manoush.

TED Radio Hour
Using ancient philosophy to cope with your modern problems

You know, I've been having such fantastic philosophical conversations lately.