1.Indignation, Addiction and Hope: Does it help to be Mad as Hell? David Brin TEDxUCSD - 2014

2. Lots to do 3. Indignation helps us fight needed battles! Passionate confrontation is important! But passion isnt the only important thing 4. Your foes are passionate too! Is there something we have that they dont? 5. DO problems get solved? 6. How we really solve problems Obviously not! So is it still working? 7. Why dont we negotiate anymore? What do they want us to yell??? 8. What is addiction? 9. Addiction is rooted in positive things! Arduous things that we MUST do with vigor and persistence life makes these things pleasurable, even joyous! 10. A natural process - prone to hijacking! 11. What does addiction have to do with todays plague of indignation? 12. Heres a clue: it feels soooooo good! 13. Whatever the merits of your causeIndignant fury robs you of opportunities to: Better target your outrage! Negotiate with moderate opponents. Split moderate opponents from their radicals! Prioritize half-a-loaf then get the rest. Build cred: you arent a screaming kook! 14. There is a difference between confidence and arrogance criticism and cynical despair firm determination vs addictive sanctimony wary skepticism vs reflexive pessimism. 15. Problems do get (partly) solved! 16. The ingredient most under attack is confidence. And so, lets experiment with something simple and pure. 17. YOU did this HOW DID YOU RESPOND? With yawns? With timid, silent satisfaction? 18. Confidence is the rebel meme! well only fix whats wrong if we believe we CAN! Yes! Issue dire warnings! There are problems to solve! But 19. Celebrate our can-do ability to negotiate, to compromise, to innovate, compete and cooperate and get things done! At risk of hypocrisy and ironyLets tap that vein of righteousness in the problem-solving spirit of TED. Next time something epochal & cool happens dont cower from sneering cynics. 20. Yell what? Im as proud as hell and my civilization can solve ANYTHING! 21. And we can. http://www.davidbrin.com