The Ted Talk explains and assesses how easy it is to appeal to citizens and get them to change their mind based on information that is curated to sway people to believe certain things. Dave Merlin’s focus is political parties. Although, he is from Canada most of what he talks about is universal and can be applied to most places in the world, especially in America. Dave Merlin exposes and tries to get people to realize that not everything they read is true and most of it is just propaganda used to make them feel a certain way about something specific or in this case, politicians.
Dave believes that apathy does exist and people do care, however he believes that we live in a world that discourages involvement and puts obstacles in the way to further prevent and discourage that involvement. He gives many examples of the obstacles and barriers that he mentioned. He uses an ad as his first example. Dave points out how the ad is impossible to read and states how the information you need is at the bottom and in a very small and unreadable font. …show more content…
Overall, Dave thinks that people are good and could be interested but because of the media and how things are set up, people don’t get to show how good that they are. He stresses that the environment we live in is why they don’t get involved. In his exact words,”As long as we believe that people, our own neighbors, are selfish, stupid or lazy, then there's no hope. But we can change all those things I mentioned. We can open up city hall. We can reform our electoral systems. We can democratize our public spaces.” He believes that people are able to change what they want to fix but it won’t happen if we as citizens and people of the world believe that we’re lazy and won’t be able to change what we want to change. When we keep that mindset, hope for the world and everything we want to change is