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Two adept students from Prem Tinsulanonda International School selected to participate in the final TEDxChiangMai
CityNews -A conference in 1984 brought together people from the worlds of technology, entertainment and design. The famous TED Talks grew from this simple beginning and following their release online, have been viewed by many millions around the world. TED is a non-profit organisation devoted to ideas worth spreading and the annual TED conferences bring together the world’s most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in eighteen minutes or less).
In Chiang Mai, there is TEDxChiangMai, an independently organised TEDx event operated under license from TED. The event is organised by a group of volunteers who support the Chiang Mai Creative City (CMCC) initiative and the Chiang Mai University Science and Technology Park Office (CMU SteP). Apart from the annual large creativity and idea forum “TEDxChiangMai”, they also organise smaller TEDx events and activities throughout the year. TEDxChiangMai 2013 was the organisation’s most recent large event.
Under the theme of “Smart Societies”, economists, entrepreneurs, researchers, policy makers, technologists, artists, designers and students shared their ideas of what can make our societies smarter.
Students join in
All international and several leading Thai schools in Chiang Mai were invited to select students to participate, and by a process of auditions a panel was able to select just four students – two from Varee International School and two from Prem Tinsulanonda International School – to join the other speakers at the September conference. The original group of six Prem students was narrowed down after a practice round where the adjudicators tackled the difficult task of selecting just two: Grade 12 students Ben Wright and Viritpol (Sun) Sunprugksin.
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A review article on The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, by David Graeber and David Wengrow. Allen Lane, 2021.
The Dawn of Everything’s central idea is challenging. We are told that humans are politically adventurous and experimental – so much so that after a spell of freedom and equality, people are inclined to choose oppression just to make a change. History takes a rhythmic form, oscillating between one extreme and the next. In recent times, however, we’ve all got stuck in just one system and we must try to understand why.
All this is new and refreshing but hardly credible. I prefer the standard anthropological view that the political instincts and social emotions that define our humanity were shaped under conditions of egalitarianism. To this day, all of us feel most relaxed and happy when able to laugh, play and socialize among companions who are our equals. But instead of building on this experience so familiar to us all, Graeber and Wengrow (henceforth: ‘G&W’) oppose the whole idea that our hunter-gatherer ancestors were egalitarians. In their view, they would just as likely have chosen to be oppressed.
As they put it: ‘If the very essence of our humanity consists of the fact that we are self-conscious political actors, and therefore capable of embracing a wide range of social arrangements, would that not mean human beings should actually have explored a wide range of social arrangements over the greater part of our history?’ Among these possibilities, as the authors readily acknowledge (pp. 86-7), were abusive dominance hierarchies like those of chimpanzees. G&W seem to be arguing that if our ancestors were so adventurous, then surely, they would have experimented not only with egalitarianism but also with harassment, abuse and domination by aggressive, bullying males.
G&W make these points in the context of a consistent attack on any idea that we became socially and morally human during the course of a r The Old School is an independent international Collège and Lycée hors contrat, recognised by the Academie de Bordeaux RNE 0471040A. .
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