Maria Bezaitis: The surprising need for strangeness

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1. [1:23PM, 9/28/2015] Manas: Maria Bezaitis describes the importance of strangeness. Everybody needs some form of strangeness in his or her lives because this is how we learn. By being around people who are not like ourselves, we are able to learn from their behaviors, which are categorized by strange since it is not familiar behavior to ourselves. On a developmental scale, children must learn what is typical and atypical behavior, which is exemplified through the phrase, “Don’t talk to strangers”
2. Was it raining when the talk was recorded? I'm either hearing statics or a drizzle
3. dicussed in too general, and too abstract level. 
4. Simplepickup maybe? 
5. (a) She obviously has never lived in Inglewood or Compton or East L.A. (b) Maybe it would be easier for her to meet people if she'd brush your hair once in a while and wear pants that didn't look like they shrunk in the dryer. (c) Might need enrollment in a 12 step program to ease her...slowly...out of the college classroom and back into the real world where things actually happen and aren't simply "data".
6. Many people hardly reach out of their comfort zone so they never experience good relationship outside of their intellectual walls. They become highly predictable and boring. They may still seek enlightenment but fail. I go with you into that endeavor. Buddha has always been a strong source of hope. Namaste strangers.
7. i think things change and society follows. we dont have to make a decision to change society. itll shape itself around the mediums we have to perceive and experience the world 
8. Agreed. So much ANGST!
9. There are plenty of TED talks that do just that! Jay Silver, Peter Singer, and Alastair Parvin's talks stand out as recent examples if you haven't already seen them. However, if by 'these talks' you meant this particular talk and others like it, I can't fault you, as I didn't find it very innovative (or clear).
10. I took this in context of a way to manage our very large and strange collection of online contacts. Organising it in terms of how strange someone is, how different they are to us, and thus how good they will be to give us new and original suggestions to our problems. Organising contacts is hard!
11. Another TED talk once again suggesting new jargon, that provides nothing more than the old would be better.
12. I sort of got lost in this talk...she kept on talking about technology...when I thought she should focus more on changing perceptions with caution...I understand she was talking about how it can "break" the rigidity of a society's norms...but she never really goes in depth...seems like she was dancing around the subject/objective of her talk
13. These talks are run by rich people who want to feel special and innovative while they exploit the other social classes (which is impossible not to do in a monetary-based economy). If they were really innovative they'd admit that since we have technology that can make sure everyone is provided for, we don't need corporate morons anymore calling the shots. We need unbridled human creativity, compassion and action–things that are laid waste in our pointless consumer greed-based economy.
14. I'm sorry, but I had to turn this talk off after one minute. She sounds like she's yelling at the audience. Take a chill pill lady.
15. We're told not to talk to strangers because as kids we're unaware of dangerous people in the world: rapists, thieves, murderers, serial killers. It's a matter of safety. We're all strangers at some point. I thought that this would be enlightening, this is the first that had me checking the time again and again to see when it would end. Disappointing. 
16. Z - is an option , i like low impedance, hahaha.. now is a moment that you reached on that speech. beautiful 
17. Yes, I realize. 
18. Wow that is so stupid.
19. shiver
20. I thought this was going to be a speech on fostering individuality. Then it turned into a marketing lecture.