AGAINST ENTROPY
Left to itself, everything tends toward disorder. So do the things we care about most. Trust erodes if it is not renewed. Truth blurs into noise if no one insists on the difference. None of it maintains itself. It must be argued for, built, and defended, or it slips away.
We put a price on what should be beyond price. We mistake efficiency for wisdom, and a forecast for control. We are promised abundance by machines and forget to ask abundance for whom. None of these have clean answers. All of them sit in the grey.
To be against entropy is to refuse the drift, to insist that some things are worth preserving, and worth the discomfort of questioning.
TEDxHarvardSquare wants talks that live in that refusal. Rebels, insurgents, creators, and trailblazers willing to ask the uncomfortable question rather than the flattering one. Not the reassuring talks. The idea that challenges an assumption we had stopped examining, restores what is quietly being lost, and builds something that endures.
Ernest Hemingway once said, “The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.” We agree with the second part.