Why you should never trust a TEDtalk: Daan Windhorst at TEDxBreda

TED Talks: are they a force of good or a force of evil in the world? The last few years have seen a significant rise in TED-talks. Almost every topic you can think of has been tedded. Except maybe the TED-talk itself. Satirist Daan Windhorst aims to prove that TED talks are dangerous and analyses the often overlooked, but very real dangers of ideas and optimism.

Regarding Daan Windhorst
Daan Windhorst (1990) is a playwright and satirist. In april of this year he gained attention by pretending dutch crowdfunding initiative De Correspondent was an april fools joke, but that hoax was in itself a hoax. Now he writes satirical pieces for De Correspondent, as well as for the current affairs theatre show De Orde van de Dag and public broadcaster VPRO, amongst others.

[LuiKang]

LMAO! This guy is a genius; a potent mix of satire, irony and humor, this guy exceeds all the TED talks put together. Yet through that humor, he sends a very valid lesson of skepticism too. :D

[larrymittens]

he just made another idea "society 2.0", should we believe it?

[trionice]

Ugh. Watch this train of thought: being exposed to something we may be likely to think about twice is evil. Now I can realize why democracy is suffering so much in this piece of the world.

[marymolloy]

The main problem with Ted talks is that the title is so often misleading.

[KowshiKTikadarSuvSufiItsuvie]

according to the researchers ''animals, do lie

[PhyrIsSoCold]

DANG! Wow. Hahaha, I really like this talk. Excellent use of satire, reverse-psychology, irony, humour. I thoroughly enjoyed the creativity and uniqueness that made it stand out.

[strangersound]

LOL! - "Language is a virus from outer space." - William S. Borroughs #positivenihilism

[brandongodin]

lol, this comment feed seems like the exact reason he made this Tedx

[johnverschragen]

Ha, ha, mooie TedTalk! Vooral de start was top. Het format van een Talk is inderdaad geconditioneerd en een beetje too obvious.

[TitusMars]

Great talk. And in 7 instead of 18 minutes. However 5 minutes could have been even better.

[Dadas]

Daan, I don't believe a word you said!

[hugothepoet]

Jeez, man, if you're going to take the piss, at least get the pronunciation right. When you started I thought you were talking about 'dead dogs' not Ted Talks. And then every time you said 'ideas' it sounded like 'IDs'. You're pretty funny, but these criticisms are all true mainly about lame second rate TedX talks... Of which this is arguably one

[FabriceTheArtist]

This was brutal! I think I could have a TEDtalk myself. Completely baseless pointless talk this was. 

[mkwarlock]

Learn how to say "idea", for god's sake..