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.
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.
@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.
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.
@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.
I'm sorry - did Ashdown just say the bankers/speculators/corpoations are bad and out of control and then turn around & say these "elite" are going to create a sensible system of global governance? I wish TED would ban all politicians from their venue - if you are peddling politics - it means you don't have a pragmatic solution to our problems - and since this guy already has a podium to preach from behind, how about giving his 15 minutes to a REAL innovator?
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.
Your enemies of 9-11 were from among you, yourselves. In that sense 9-11 did not show that the most powerful country could also be attacked, it showed that the most powerful nation had spawned a Frankenstein monster of a rich and powerful minority that is now out to devour humanity itself for it's own selfish interests.
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 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.
This guy is the most experienced military/politician in Europe. He was NATO's man-on-the-ground to clean up the mess in Yugoslavia. He sorted on Northern Ireland behind the scenes, he was in the SAS, etc etc. AND he was the leader of major political UK party as well. He knows his shit. Politically and militarily. If you don't agree with him... fine. But the "New World Order" accusations are from children with no experience. Ashdown is a decent, intelligent man who has seen a lot of blood.
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.
The only High Representative Bosnia & Herzegovina ever had who showed a modicum of appreciation for what was actually needed to take the country towards a democratic, liberal future. That's why he's reviled both by Serb & Croat nationalists and their numerous respective enablers.
@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.
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 ..
@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.
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.
@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.
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.
I think you missed the point. Ashdown warns us of the danger of allowing the powerful governments to monopolize treaties. He envisions that everyone, including powerful governments, will have to work together more closely because of globalization. That's good for democracy because it diffuses power and should allow more freedom for individuals, not less.
@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!".
@thedescanteer I'm in favor of a Global Government. The UN has too little power right now to prevent another global war and with nuclear weapons in the mix, that would be a bad thing.
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.
@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
@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.
@trapedd Yes, economically speaking, they are not isolationist and are quite adamant on free trade and open borders. That being said, libertarians rely on isolationist tenants as well. They dislike military treaties and alliances and straight up despise stationing troops abroad. It's the way they interpret the Constitution and believe that we must treat all foreign countries the same way. That's what I was referring to.
@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.
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.
1.00 Stability of the 19th century ... Errr it started with the Napoleonic wars, then independence revolutions in South America, revolution in Germany, the potato famine in Ireland, the Anglo Boer war... Oh yes, it was so stable!
Over here in Europe our global government is going to fail and is breaking apart, so that we will be back to our old countries. If a United Europe risks failure how the heck this guy can think a world government can work ?
I can usually learn extra from the comment sections but, These comments are so superficial...all I see is "Excellent speech" nobody elaborating directly about the content.
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.
Governments are irrelevant to real human progress. Governments are not about coordination or networks or even about making things better. Governments are about power and control and inhibiting change. Real change and progress will come from private non-profits, innovative creators, entrepreneurial corporations, and grass-roots movements. Public policy means centralized control. It doesn't work. And this guy can't sell it, no matter how much English poetry he quotes.
@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.
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
@globalbankfraud What @8legsFreak had to point out shows just how insular American thinking still is - that despite the obvious fact Paddy Ashdown (a well respected politician) is not American, you still have the capacity to somehow think that when someone speaks, they speak for and about America only, and to hell with the rest of the world. The situation is changing, America is no longer the centre of the world and it's about time you and your countrymen realised that.
@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?
@doford "Every single progression for human freedom in the entire history of the earth is in complete conflict with what this supposed Liberal is talking about." just wow
@LandDestroyerReport He mentioned sensible only in the context that it will be a great challenge to make sure that the coming regulation of the international space IS sensible, not that he expected it to be and that a big problem was that the weak would likely be left out of the decision making process that creates this regulatory framework... His speech wasn't perfect but you should listen properly before you criticise.
@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.
@PhonoDuck You agree with him because you don't know who he is and who he really works for. Like I said, you ARE taking him at face value. I'll advise you to do some homework on him, that is, if you're a neutral observer. The fact that he's the chair for Chatham House is the biggest giveaway. You're absolutely correct about the financial sector, and its becoming increasingly entrenched on a worldwide scale. There's a modus operandi at play here. It's called entrapment.
@sjunzhe Neither. Thanks - I will take self-sufficient nation-states built on technical education, innovation, and production over the institutional corporate-fascist garbage peddled by Ashdown any day of the week. PS. The Arab Spring was premeditated by the very corporate-financier interests Ashdown represents as president of the Chatham House - this was reported even in the New York Times. Peace!
This is really not a TED-caliber talk. The topic itself is fairly conventional. Substance-wise there is nothing new. Any one with a good undergraduate training in international relations should be able to say what he did, and probably with greater precision. Perhaps he actually had better ideas, but he just thought the purpose of TED is not to 'communicate' great ideas but to 'educate' using their dumbed-down & castrated (harmless-looking) version?
An old man, trying to grasp and cope with the "new ways". We young people live them, not only understand them. I think, as soon as we get rid of theese old school guys from power, the better for our children.
@LandDestroyerReport Err... No he didn't. Given his left leaning politics and the fact that he was a member of the only major political party in the UK that the power hungry would never join i think that would be rather surprising. In fact what he said was that the powers that exist currently in an unregulated zone will, out of their own self interest, be forced to create a regulatory framework within which to work. Nothing about 'sensible' or indeed 'global governance'.
@globalbankfraud he is British, so from his perspective, those threats you named are foreign. Besides, they operate from outside the democratic and legal system, thus, they are foreign to the entire human community.
@Brust90 I cannot name anyone particularly, but often I have heard comment's that Chinese "communism"/one party system is hurting China's economy in the long run and they need to embrace democracy. I just happened to disagree so I made the comment to state the obvious. Also the gentleman here speaking about the wonders of globalization pointed to China and supposed that it's moving towards democracy.
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.
And now, 8 year later, we are analyzing this speech in the university.
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.
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.
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.
He had some insight...this is much more evident in 2019.
Exactly
its not the climb up the mountain that makes you weary, its the grain of sand in your shoe.
@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.
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.
Fantastic speech. This man was a national treasure.
@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.
This is why I subscribe to tedtalks
No surprises here. He was a participant at the 1989 Bilderberg meeting.
I'm sorry - did Ashdown just say the bankers/speculators/corpoations are bad and out of control and then turn around & say these "elite" are going to create a sensible system of global governance?
I wish TED would ban all politicians from their venue - if you are peddling politics - it means you don't have a pragmatic solution to our problems - and since this guy already has a podium to preach from behind, how about giving his 15 minutes to a REAL innovator?
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.
No, and I will shed blood to see it never happening.
One of the better TED talks in a while. *like*
R.I.P. Paddy Ashdown.
Your enemies of 9-11 were from among you, yourselves. In that sense 9-11 did not show that the most powerful country could also be attacked, it showed that the most powerful nation had spawned a Frankenstein monster of a rich and powerful minority that is now out to devour humanity itself for it's own selfish interests.
Thank you Paddy Ashdown, Bosnia and Bosniaks will remember you! RIP!
Perhaps the most twisted part about this presentation is that he speaks with such authority and confidence.
2023 is just a day away and the shift is more apparent than ever in my 40 years on this earth
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 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.
This guy is the most experienced military/politician in Europe. He was NATO's man-on-the-ground to clean up the mess in Yugoslavia. He sorted on Northern Ireland behind the scenes, he was in the SAS, etc etc. AND he was the leader of major political UK party as well. He knows his shit. Politically and militarily. If you don't agree with him... fine.
But the "New World Order" accusations are from children with no experience. Ashdown is a decent, intelligent man who has seen a lot of blood.
Rip paddy. Never agreed on anything but horrible near Christmas time. Thoughts are with your family and friends x
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.
@@owenking8662 no worries buddy. Completely opposite politically but seemed like a genuine lovely guy. Sorry for your loss buddy x
great public speaker
The only High Representative Bosnia & Herzegovina ever had who showed a modicum of appreciation for what was actually needed to take the country towards a democratic, liberal future. That's why he's reviled both by Serb & Croat nationalists and their numerous respective enablers.
"Where power goes, governance must follow" - And where is governed, there too goes power.
@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.
Amd now we are seeing this infront of our sights.
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 ..
He's a good public speaker.
Well thought out and convincingly put.
So true for today's world !
@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.
His message aside.. He is a very good speaker.
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.
Government is more effective at the point closest to the people. IMF, WTO, etc have made things worse.
I never knew mercantilist was pronounced that way, thank you youtube.
This guy is spot on!!!
@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.
A community with a shared future for mankind.
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.
I think you missed the point. Ashdown warns us of the danger of allowing the powerful governments to monopolize treaties. He envisions that everyone, including powerful governments, will have to work together more closely because of globalization. That's good for democracy because it diffuses power and should allow more freedom for individuals, not less.
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.
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.
@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!".
@USERNAMEfieldempty More name calling. To the objective, intelligent observer, you have just conceded in this debate. Good day/night to you.
Awesome Speech .!
"People may act free of restraint". Westerners in their folly often castigate societies where restraint is imposed through cultural norms.
A fantastically interesting discussion
@thedescanteer I'm in favor of a Global Government. The UN has too little power right now to prevent another global war and with nuclear weapons in the mix, that would be a bad thing.
May you Rest In Peace Paddy
A truly brilliant man.
@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.
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.
@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
@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.
Speaker has great vision
@trapedd Yes, economically speaking, they are not isolationist and are quite adamant on free trade and open borders. That being said, libertarians rely on isolationist tenants as well. They dislike military treaties and alliances and straight up despise stationing troops abroad. It's the way they interpret the Constitution and believe that we must treat all foreign countries the same way. That's what I was referring to.
@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.
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.
And I was thinking this talk is about electricity. :D
Good talk, nevertheless.
i would enjoy this if i didn't have to watch this for a school assigment.
1.00 Stability of the 19th century ... Errr it started with the Napoleonic wars, then independence revolutions in South America, revolution in Germany, the potato famine in Ireland, the Anglo Boer war... Oh yes, it was so stable!
Over here in Europe our global government is going to fail and is breaking apart, so that we will be back to our old countries. If a United Europe risks failure how the heck this guy can think a world government can work ?
Interconnected and being dependent on each other means that we are easier to control by one single entity called 'The Global Governance'.
Anglo saxon dominance needed to end
well said!
I can usually learn extra from the comment sections but, These comments are so superficial...all I see is "Excellent speech" nobody elaborating directly about the content.
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.
Governments are irrelevant to real human progress.
Governments are not about coordination or networks or even about making things better.
Governments are about power and control and inhibiting change.
Real change and progress will come from private non-profits, innovative creators, entrepreneurial corporations, and grass-roots movements.
Public policy means centralized control. It doesn't work.
And this guy can't sell it, no matter how much English poetry he quotes.
Pre-watching preaction: I hope this is about the shift of power from nation-states to super-national corporations...
@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.
As seen from space,our blue marble without borders may one day be a reality !
He's talking Mcgraw-Hill history not Howard Zinn history.
Amen.
very true.
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
No you are wrong in saying. "Where power goes, governance must follow." ( 5:28 )
@PeaceRallyOrg All US wars have been illegal, according to its constitution, since Korea.
@globalbankfraud What @8legsFreak had to point out shows just how insular American thinking still is - that despite the obvious fact Paddy Ashdown (a well respected politician) is not American, you still have the capacity to somehow think that when someone speaks, they speak for and about America only, and to hell with the rest of the world. The situation is changing, America is no longer the centre of the world and it's about time you and your countrymen realised that.
@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?
@doford "Every single progression for human freedom in the entire history of the earth is in complete conflict with what this supposed Liberal is talking about." just wow
@LandDestroyerReport
He mentioned sensible only in the context that it will be a great challenge to make sure that the coming regulation of the international space IS sensible, not that he expected it to be and that a big problem was that the weak would likely be left out of the decision making process that creates this regulatory framework...
His speech wasn't perfect but you should listen properly before you criticise.
@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.
The effects of this are evident already in our daily lives. Many thanks for this informative talk.
But to know whether people truly oppose democracy or not, you need democracy.
@PhonoDuck You agree with him because you don't know who he is and who he really works for. Like I said, you ARE taking him at face value. I'll advise you to do some homework on him, that is, if you're a neutral observer. The fact that he's the chair for Chatham House is the biggest giveaway. You're absolutely correct about the financial sector, and its becoming increasingly entrenched on a worldwide scale. There's a modus operandi at play here. It's called entrapment.
anything you love AND fear is dangerous - Nationalism, Religion, etc
@sjunzhe Neither. Thanks - I will take self-sufficient nation-states built on technical education, innovation, and production over the institutional corporate-fascist garbage peddled by Ashdown any day of the week. PS. The Arab Spring was premeditated by the very corporate-financier interests Ashdown represents as president of the Chatham House - this was reported even in the New York Times. Peace!
This is really not a TED-caliber talk. The topic itself is fairly conventional. Substance-wise there is nothing new. Any one with a good undergraduate training in international relations should be able to say what he did, and probably with greater precision.
Perhaps he actually had better ideas, but he just thought the purpose of TED is not to 'communicate' great ideas but to 'educate' using their dumbed-down & castrated (harmless-looking) version?
well done Paddy Ashdown that was powerful stuff
An old man, trying to grasp and cope with the "new ways". We young people live them, not only understand them. I think, as soon as we get rid of theese old school guys from power, the better for our children.
@LandDestroyerReport
Err... No he didn't. Given his left leaning politics and the fact that he was a member of the only major political party in the UK that the power hungry would never join i think that would be rather surprising. In fact what he said was that the powers that exist currently in an unregulated zone will, out of their own self interest, be forced to create a regulatory framework within which to work. Nothing about 'sensible' or indeed 'global governance'.
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.
@globalbankfraud he is British, so from his perspective, those threats you named are foreign. Besides, they operate from outside the democratic and legal system, thus, they are foreign to the entire human community.
@Brust90 I cannot name anyone particularly, but often I have heard comment's that Chinese "communism"/one party system is hurting China's economy in the long run and they need to embrace democracy. I just happened to disagree so I made the comment to state the obvious. Also the gentleman here speaking about the wonders of globalization pointed to China and supposed that it's moving towards democracy.
I hope we move toward voluntarism
It's amazing to me that although only made in 2012, this speech is already very dated. Our understanding has changed.
Ty Mister Farage
Personally i thought the opposite.. its incredibly accurate id say
I also disagree, astoundingly relevant. Good luck with an isolationist stance in the '20's.
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.