TED talks are self-help taken to a mass-production level, since the both offer:

• the belief that "you can change the world/yourself if you want." And only "if you want to."
• just like illegal drugs, they offer a feel-good dose of optimism, inspiration, and encouragement without doing anything useful really (or doing anything at all).

المشكلة ليست في أنّ [وسائل الإعلام والتواصل media] توفّر لنا مواضيعًا ترفيهية وممتعة، بل في أنّ جميع المواضيع صارت تُقَدَّم بصفتها مواضيعًا ترفيهية.

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I really feel sorry for today's famous people. Their whole reputation and social life is under the mercy of the crowds (not even their fans). They are more like politicians than kings, since their whole fame is "democratic" and they will fall if the crowd dislikes them or simply grows weary of them.

They are truly miserable because they are hostages for whoever has a twitter or instagram account.

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Without myth... Every culture loses its healthy creative natural power.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.

- Will Durant

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

- Thomas Carlyle

Our body is a ship that sails on deep blue waters.
What is our goal?
To be shipwrecked!

- Saviors of God

Iran, 1979

By Roberto Ferri

إنّ الشّبيبةَ نارٌ إنْ أرَدتَ بها
أمرًا فبادِرهُ إنّ الدّهرَ مُطفِئُها

- أبو العلاء المعري