The Subversive Graduation Speech

In one transcendent part of the speech, which on the whole flirts pleasingly with being entirely out of control, he says, ?Across the country no fewer than 3.2 million seniors are graduating ? that?s 37,000 valedictorians ? 340,000 swaggering jocks ? 2,185,967 pairs of Uggs.? Although he tries to end on a more uplifting note, and move the speech into more conventional territory of inspiration, and caring about other people, the true heat of the speech is in its critique of the emergent generation he believes is overly managed, overly protected, and exquisitely nurtured: ?Yes, you?ve been pampered, cossetted, doted upon, helmeted, bubble-wrapped.? (Though really, read carefully, this is a critique of their parents.)

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