TED Talk Response

The broad topic of this ted talk is gossip and how it documents our history. The woman who is speaking to us is a professional gossiper and does it for a living. She proves to us that gossip dates back many years ago and it is who we are. The idea that is established is that our successors determine who we were based on our gossip history. She brought up the story of Chris Brown and Rhianna and how Chris beat her up badly. She then brought up the gossip about John Travolta and how he allegedly was having an affair with another man. The point she was trying to make is, who do we want to go down in history as? people who forgave a man for hitting a woman? or even go down in history as someone who forgave someone who would rather have an affair with a man rather than a woman? In the end we should be more careful about who we support, and what they have done in the past because it can tell a lot who we are as people.