Saints preserve us, the muted clapping suggests few got the message. Elite high school my ass.

And he was never invited to speak anywhere ever again.

I'm gonna five star this on title alone. Then I'll watch it.

It's pretty decent. I kind of wish it was shorter, that he would focus on just a few lines a lot more. Kids are fucking stupid, after all, even wherever-the-fuck this "prestigious" high school is. If a 25 year old in grad school, if a 35 year old teacher of grad students can't get his point with a speech like this, how the hell does he expect an 18 year old to?

Then again, it's pretty decent. I approve of his message, agree with it, and hope that it spreads to the same popular bullshit media that 18 year olds actually consume. (But it won't. His viewpoint is poison to consumerism, to corporate worship. It'll destroy the current leaders in our economy, and if he works too hard to spread this knowledge, he will probably only enjoy a failing career. And no, this isn't gangstalking. This is just groupthink, a well-described psychological phenomenon. This is people subconsciously maintaining status quo for their own sake: "buying makes me happy," and they will fight anyone who tries to burst that bubble, whether actively or passively, whether overtly or with microaggressions (well documented to do serious psychological harm, look up the term)).

So in sum, good try, guy.

Even though he says it a few times, that line was really a minor part of his message. It seemed to be more a speech about not feeling entitled to success and instead working to help others and preserve our human race. I really like his approach to the issue.

Speech ghostwritten by Tyler Durden.

From what I heard was that most people loved this, and only a few people were upset.

Minus a star for the lazy, sexist crap at the beginning. How about those WEDDINGS, fellahs? Ain't they a drag?

The "So what does this get me?" syndrome is absolutely one of the biggest, most malignant tumors currently spreading throughout our culture.

It took me a couple of decades to even recognize that I was buying into it. I'm still working to shake it. It's frustrating, but amazingly liberating.

Jane Jensen?

He came off a little pompous (especially at the beginning with the sexist jokes) but overall a hard but also important message to take.

David McCullough, formerly of The Kids in the Hall.

It's the eternally true moral of every graduation speech ever: that weddings are lopsided as shit and men should avoid the ritual as long as possible

...and then something about spending energy only on things that truly matter to you.

It's actually not nearly as harsh as the headline suggests. I was hoping for some intelligent and true but drunken and spiteful diatribe calling all the kids stupid cunts and telling them they will all end up straing rubbing alcohol through toast by the dumpster behind Dunkin Donuts to wash the cock taste out of their mouth.

Yeah, it's obvious I'm a teacher, isn't it?