In this TED talk his main focus seemed to be Meritocracy and how as an ideal, it is incredible, if society could work like that in real life, he would stand behind it with everything in him but it is impossible. In Meritocracy, the good people would be at the top and the bad are at thee bottom, but he explained that a society like that will never exist. There will always be bad people at the top and good people on the bottom. The perception of "lower" people has changed so much since the middle ages that it makes snobbiness impossible to avoid. The lower status used to be called "unfortunates" because it was truly seen as though they just happened to be not blessed, now in America we would call those people "losers" using the belief that they had failed in order to be there, at the bottom. Which he later explained is simply not the case, you do control yourself but you can only control so much of your life and what happened to you in it.
As for Tragedy , he discusses this somewhere in the middle, he started by using self- help books as an example of perception. According to him, there are two types of self help books, one kind is telling you that "You can do it!" and "You are unstoppable!" the other is basically a book on how to cope with low self esteem. Then he leads into different perceptions/levels of sympathy. He explains what happens when you give a tragic story to a newspaper and they make a headline out of it, usually they take the worst things from the story and try and shove them together. For example: the story of Romeo and Juliet turns into "Couple drinks poison together and dies!". He basically just explained how everyone perceives tragedy and sympathy differently, and it is impossible to have the perfect society because success is relative.
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