How we learned to watch ourselves | Messiah Godfried Majid | TEDxUMiami

[applause] I want to start with something you've probably seen recently. Maybe your own home, maybe in someone else's. The elf on the shelf.Now, every December, millions of households place this small figurine somewhere inside their home. The rules are simple. The elf watches the children and each night it reports back to Santa on who has been naughty and who has been nice.But here's what I find striking. The elf never actually does anything. It doesn't explain consequences. It doesn't punish anyone. It doe ...