2018 Commencement Address
Graduation season is in full swing as economically illiterate Hollywood celebrities belly up to university lecterns across the country inspiring graduates with optimism and hope that will propel them into the real world. The celebrity speeches may not help prepare these grads for adulthood but, at least, they’ve only wasted 15 minutes – a better investment than made by those who watched the Emoji movie or majored in Kardashian Studies or the like. I’ve come across surveys that show a significant majority of Millennials hold a favorable view of socialism. The favorable viewpoint is highest in the 18-24 year-old age demographic although many of these young proponents have difficulty defining socialism. In my highly unscientific surveys of 20-somethings, the definition often boils down to, “I want free stuff. I want others to get free stuff”. How is this generational amnesia possible? After 17 years of schooling, these 20-somethings do not know that free stuff doesn’t exist? Mo