You must hate Derren Brown, then. :)
I'm ambivalent about the practice (although I lean towards condemning the practice, as I think the message is too subtle for most people to get it, plus I think it sometimes steps over the line with respect to acceptable deceit and magic (not in this case, though)), but I'm not sure why TED should be condemned. If any audience is smart enough to to pick up on the message of a double cross, wouldn't it be a TED audience?
Linda
It's really not that difficult to simply partake in sleight of hand coupled with distraction techniques. That's all a magic show is.
I don't mind Derren Brown, because he owns his buffoonery all to himself. I wouldn't trust anything he says, of course, but at least he's not looking for a stage that supposedly fosters innovative thinking (ideas worth spreading?). This is more like a quadruple triple-double cross. It's next level mud. And why should the audience pick up on it? He would be a genius if he left some hint about the double cross, but it's not there. His presentation is vacuous.
Probably some of them would be convinced what he does really is magic had he not stated otherwise.
Not sure how it was billed. Probably under entertainment or even magic. But I don't know why that matters. The double cross is so frustratingly baloney it boggles the mind a bit.Oh, I guess I didn't know how his talk was billed. I assumed it was billed as a magic show. But if it was billed as a psychology lecture (or something along that line), then I completely agree with you.
Linda
Are you complaining that it's so lame as to not be believable in the first place? :)Not sure how it was billed. Probably under entertainment or even magic. But I don't know why that matters. The double cross is so frustratingly baloney it boggles the mind a bit.
Are you complaining that it's so lame as to not be believable in the first place? :)
Linda