As a parent of a 17-year-old, a teacher, and as a 55-year-old individual, I have observed the many key moments in life where disillusionment plays a part. There are many for a young child: Your first day of school, the time your "friend" does something mean and betrays you, perhaps the moment your parent(s) betrays you (that one really sucks), and, if your parents are really incompetent, the realization that you are mostly alone in the world. But, as a child, you have your future to look forward to. And then comes adolescence. You realize your teachers are a bunch of idiots, your parents are not grownups, and indeed, there really is no such thing as a grownup. The work you do in school seems meaningless and pointless, etc. But at least you still have your future to look forward to. You go to college. You learn stuff. Then you get a job and a group of friends and you spend nearly every night drinking and having a good time. This goes on for a while and then you get married and have children. That consumes your time for a while and then comes middle age. Your body starts going downhill so that's not much of a source of hope. You're not particularly attractive to anyone anymore so that part of life kind of goes by the wayside. And your choice of career turns out not to be as fulfilling as you once imagined. Your children are getting older and don't need you so much so your role as a parent subsides. But you still have retirement to look forward to. "I'm going to travel. I'll have all this time off. I'm going to do all these fun things I've always wanted to do." But then your energy declines. And a lot of that lack of energy has a psychological cause. Things just aren't that much fun anymore. You're running out of things to enjoy. This is life. This is what nobody wants to talk about. I dare not tell my 17-year-old this is what the world offers. He's too young. It's too much. Let him find out for himself. (Like the lecturer relates, "You try to create a little safety, a little comfort, but you know deep down inside it's not real.") But hope is not lost. All of this disillusionment, if you're open and willing, will lead you to turn within and find out what really matters. Don't believe the lies of the world. Idols will make you cry every single time. Turn within.

One of the first things you should do immediately after realizing everything is a lie is to definitely stop watching TED on KZfaq.

I had a mental breakdown when my bubble popped that lasted years and still sucks to this day. I can totally understand why people don’t really want to know the truth.

I see pain and fear in his eyes..I feel the pain daily as I lie in my bed running out of money trying to figure out what ,who or where to go or do next

Good vid, but audio mixing like this makes me want to barf.

We have been lied about almost every important issue in life! The 3 biggest lies is the place we live on, history and the political system.

More please, you have struck at the heart of social conditioning.

This is wild. Filmed 7 years ago and he brought up fact checking and then a virus and how we're not afraid of them. "It's a virus?! Okay, so what?!" Response. And he addresses the corruption and cognitive dissidents and why people will continue believing something that they probably know is wrong.

I thought for CERTAIN that this video was just made this month, April 2018. It's timeless. I love the way he tells a story. It's a really difficult story to tell, but he does it beautifully. Why is this video not viral? It needs to spread!

It’s a good title but just ends up saying that everything is a lie except identity politics orthodoxy. “I was a sinner and now I am saved, follow me and you can be saved too.” Yeah right.

The laughter coming from the audience, is more disturbing than the process of becoming disillusioned itself. Yiiiiiiikes.

The wizard of Oz was an eye opener for me. We are all running down the yellow brick road. When you get to the Wizards palace you find that all that is is a little man pulling wires and blowing puffs of fire. All an illusion.

A fascinating presentation, calling for numerous repeated viewings. I've always been fascinated by "the big reveal," and was deeply impressed by "The Wizard of Oz" as a child. There's another such moment that has never left me, namely the bit in "A Wrinkle in Time" where Meg, who has believed all along that as soon as she rescued her father all would be well, discovers that her dad isn't really all she thought he was, and that she would have to start making decisions for herself. That always packs a punch, because it's absolutely authentic and part of every person's experience.

Dorothy: "I miss Kansas, Toto." Toto: (I miss the rains down in Africa.)

Anyone above the age of consent who has to be told at a lecture that "not all that glitters is gold" is beyond help. This is a hard life, but it is harder when you are stupid.

I'm not going to be all intellectual and say bad things about this man. He was trying to deal with the fact that almost everything we have been told is a LIE. I remember when I realized that everything was an untruth . But after the shock subsided I was free to think new thoughts and make my life better.

Pretty good. He has a powerful manner in how he tells his story. Good presentation. In the end, it shows a great and strong point!

Nicely put! Life as we know is actually a complete lie.... but most people don’t want to acknowledge it! Yes- we have shelter our children from the absolute truth- but i think a good parent at this time should gently awaken them- and yes, movies are the perfect way!

Excellent!

Everything I learned from my parents, my peers, my teachers, my mentors, and especially media/TV was a lie. Except for say no to drugs. That was the truth. Its sad that Im just now realizing this in my 40s.

I really enjoyed this speech. The speaker is very enlightened. I am totally on the same page as him.

What's with the volume? Can you re-upload?

This video has never been more needed than right now

This is a beautiful effort!

No lies were told. Thank you very much, sir.

Great talk! Glad I clicked it =D

Excelllent Ted Talk... Relevant yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Powerful ending. No more facades.

Great video, well written

Bottom line its every man for himself. How you perceive.

This is AMAZING!!!

This is at its core one of the best Ted Talks ever. What would this world be without disillusionment? A much better place for sure👍

great talk but sound is so low even with speakers all the way up. how can u fix that?

WAAAAA! "I'm a Straight, White Male and I HATE MYSELFFFF!" MERRRRR!

This was a very good video!

Yep, the audio on this is poor to non-existent.

REALLY GOOD TALK!

Divine Wisdom... BeYOUtiful Truth... Denial is the greatest dis-ease of them all!

Good Wizard, Colin!

Yeah hitting that moral crossroad in my life I just can't sell myself out for money and material. People that have passed by that I should have helped the deep spiritual connections that I gave up. for what lie. Material makes you give up that one true feeling wanting to love and to give love. We use need of wanting to feel connected and belonging we manipulate it for our own selfish need. Put our faith and material to fill that void and lost our humanity on the way. We live an idea of ourselves not for ourselves. well I would rather love and be good and just and die alone on the street. Been in a mention surrounded by things. At least I was straight to myself how many people can say that

POWERFUL!!!

Thank you for saying this. This idea is my truth and my mantra and the individuals that I encounter seem to be in denial of this universal characteristic of humanity.

It requires a change in perspective. It means that our current material perspective is incorrect and is the very reason some of us can perceive the lie we live and must live as long as we assume everything to be made of matter. As we already can see materialism offers no principle to guide us because it has no relevant focus. The result is, we must fake civility, all of it. This faking is the reason we have never properly defined civility or the principles of existence which would naturally support and enforce a civil culture. It is to say that currently, all aspects of governmentally enforced civility is faked civility and requires the application of force, a contradiction to the internal growth of understanding natural civility requires. Contradictions are the violation of our first principle of all existence, non-contradiction.

Some nice points, really not bad thoughts overall. At the end, though, the idea is presented that powerful people gain freedom by dropping their façades. I think that only applies if they weren't achieving more freedom and power from their positions (and likely corruption or lies) and/or regret being in deceptive, powerful positions. If a person has power, wealth, and freedom to do almost anything desired (even ruining people's lives or sentencing them to death), that person has reason to keep up the illusion... first to keep their benefits and to prevent revenge for their actions (which include keeping up the illusion).

If your salary depends on playing along... Follow the motive which is 99% of the time money and power. Society is structured like a onion. The higher you go, the fewer but but more powerful and usually richer people.

Here is one of the most significant things that is not true... The 'fed' is part of gvt and has our best interests in mind

dude, repost with volume 10x louder, maybe 20x

We are all flawed as human beings............ it doesn't mean that all of our heroes are just the product of lies

who ever posted this....great information is greater when you can hear it

Ideas worth spreading. What do you do? Me... I’m making a cup of tea and I’m going to ponder 🤔.

This guy mentions the Wizard of Oz in just about all his speeches, but I'm willing to bet he hasn't got a clue what the Wizard of Oz story was actually about. Every one of his speeches is about the classical idea of feminism and racism, treating the issue like it's one of the most prevalent issues of the Western, civilized world. The funny thing is, it is mainstream television, music and movies which indoctrinate these ideas of racial, gender specific thinking into us. Yet, he focuses the blame on how WE think as opposed to how we are MADE to think. Rather than chastising modern, corporate media culture, he chooses to chastise YOU, as though it's YOUR fault you are made to think racist and sexist thoughts, not the corporate entities who plant those ideas in you. Why not focus on the problem, Mr. Stokes, rather than focusing on the symptom... perhaps maybe then we'll get somewhere!!

Religion is the most heavily sponsored content of all.

"I always tell the truth even when I lie"

Did I miss something? what does this talk have to do with the title of this vid?

Nobody knows. The ones that do just want followers to validate their perception. Humanity is "glorious".

This is making more sense to me but is it to everyone of every color, religion or job position and how much a person is paid? How do we solve this matter? For once in my life I am going to have to stand up to my own self from imposing on to my own kids of the authority figure in which I never had a role model except for the 1st 10 years of my life except for Mom who raised 2 set's of kids mine. What do we do about (Sybil). Keep that in mind. So much to learn. We get on as best as we can and start peeling off the layers of ego that we put on ourselves till that painful most terrifying nerve is exposed. Own it. Because our whole life is packed with lessons. Thank you. I don't know where that came from but thank you. Michael ✌️

The problem with the lie is everyone is compelled to find it somewhere else

if one gives up their power - someone else will grab that power - as there are only leaders and followers.

Wow. Amazing...it's my manifestation .

we finally have more atheist in this world than ever before ...so we are moving in the right direction

Religious and political power thrives, manipulates and perpetuates this concept through time and location. The sooner people realise and reject both the better.

this talk is profound. as a non-White man, i understand.

Every pastor preacher and priest is just another Wizard of Oz.

EARTH IS FLAT

Wao you are a world savior. Thank you. Now who is is willing ?

"Sponsored Content" - I love that phrase. But advertisers, and even politicians, are not the worst purveyors of it...look to scientists. The history of science (including recent and current history) is horrifying in terms of slanted, biased, and manipulated data designed to glorify and even legalize ego based beliefs. Every which way.

The volume is too low to hear. Come on. Fix it.

What people mostly do is create order within a sea of chaos. The structures that stem from these efforts are never perfect. It is a constant struggle to keep that order afloat. So, others are not really lying to you, it is just that for too long you failed to see that omnipresent imperfection. To add, it is indeed almost biblical. When Adam and Eve first cover their nakedness, it is to protect themselves as they are now fully aware of their weakness and vulnerability. Even that choice of the cover as a way of looking for protection is sort of a pathetic solution, showing even more so mankind's weakness in the face of dire straits. It is paradise lost. It is the human condition. So be it. Amen.

I'm reading Wicked, the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch and the connection between the wizard and racism is especially poignant in light of his behavior in the book, labeling Animals and animals and silencing their dissent. The wizard gets Dorothy to kill the "witch" and he gets off scott free and gets to go home with no consequences. Hopefully Glenda is a better leader in the end and isn't being controlled by someone else in the background. It's not a coincidence that Dorothy's house just happened to land on the witch of the East. It's not a coincidence that there was a bucket of water for Dorothy to use. It's not a coincidence that Toto exposes the wizard. Who does that leave? Glinda. Is Glinda controlling everything or is the lady in the literal bubble , being gently guided to follow a certain path? Sounds a lot like the way our society works.

Baby boys and girls are different.

Aw, people either hate you, are scared of what you say or dismiss you. Nice concept though. Again it takes a lot of people doing it together

Having power over people because they believe you have power over them is not flase power. Also, you wouldn't have to disillusion your children to your standards if you didn't set up the illusion for them in the first place, which you would anyway if you tried not to because everyone has different opinions about things. To say it another way, if you were completely honest with your children, one day they'll think about how you lied to them. Everything works this way. The only golden standard of disillusionment is to refuse to be offended by dissonance.

Well, on the other hand, he did cure my insomnia.

Luke I am your father! Funny that clip got bought up eh!

One of the most brilliant Ted Talks I have ever watched.

As soon as he said asteroids and dinosaurs I knew I would have to turn the video off. 😂

This is the establishment approved pseudo red pilling version for phony the wake up of those in the box to remain in the box.

Volume issues, eh?

Amazing, who is this

Sound messed up .....

And then he gave his own "sponsored content" - amazing...

audio is horrible... can it be fixed?

How about some AUDIO???

I couldn't hear him

and then? so what's your point? the title is left unanswered. i just dont get any of it i guess.

Power over others? I don’t think so! What power? Not me! I have no power over others! I am equal with the others and part of that one consciousness on earth!

The only "lie" is denying that you have ambitions and being unable to trust anyone. What a joke.

Charles Murray and The Bell Curve would strongly take issue with your perspectives. Nature can care less about political correctness and whose feelings are hurt.

Deep on many different levels...

Man, speaker in left ear and audience in right ear is kinda rough.

Sounds like he is full of white guilt and is on an apology tour.

(eye roll) Sure.

He did a great job of drawing out the picture in this story. I absolutely agree with what he said.

The real lie is the world we've built, and it's a terrible one at that. Don't lecture me about truth.

Really bad audio, couldn´t hear most of it

Very shallow rabbit hole. The lie is ever pervading for the truth is always available for tomorrow.

100% Truth.

Who told Americans that a blue shirt can be worn with beige trousers and brown shoes? And why do all of them love this combination?

The problem with the biological explanation is it denies our ability to choose. If these thoughts or behaviors have a biological cause, what can we do to change that? Can you, for instance, change the chemistry in your brain? How? You might say, "Well, I'll ingest a drug that will change my brain chemistry." But the obvious question is, which literally nobody every asks is, where does the impetus come from in the first place which allows you to make the choice to ingest that drug? In other words, what is doing the choosing? Is it brain states themselves which choose? If that's the case, is choice even real or is it an illusion? When you ask most people if choice is possible, most will say it's axiomatic, of course it's real. But the ones who have thought about it and perhaps come from a viewpoint that matter is the cause of thought, usually have no choice (forgive the pun) but to decide (again, forgive the pun) that choice is an illusion. But those individuals don't behave as if choice were an illusion. Lectures like this one, for instance, would be pointless if choice were an illusion. If you learn everything is a lie, there's not much you can do about it if it all has a biological cause. Perhaps we need to question the foundational beliefs about reality. Is matter really the source of human consciousness? Aren't we really just coming to that conclusion because it seems to be true? Is "seems to be" really a good enough reason to make a conclusion about reality? I don't think so. If anything, we should at least question it. Maybe that's what's wrong with the world. Maybe that's why everything seems to be a lie. It's all based on the biggest lie of all.

Darth Vader's revelation didn't strike me as all that remarkable or Earth shattering. I liked the Star Wars series, at least the first 3, but it was not THAT big a thing. Maybe because I was 29 years old at the time, or maybe because I never believed in superheroes, anyway. The Wizard of Oz, and the drawing back of the curtain never seemed all that deep, even though I was a little kid the first time I saw it. I liked the Beatles and Frank Zappa, but I never viewed them as God. For that matter, I never believed in God as God. Was I born defective, that I was unsurprised that everything was, well, maybe not a lie, but a whole lot less than it seemed? Was I born obtunded that I didn't feel these things?

Before I waste 11 minutes of my life, does he answer the title of the video? I really want to know how people live with all these lies…