Former President Bill Clinton gave a Class Day Speech to graduating Yale seniors on Sunday. IN his speech Clinton warned the students that upon graduating they would be left to face the wolrd's three main flaws: "It is too unstable; it is too unequal, and it is completely unsustainable." Clinton followed this by encouraging the gradutes that they now have the ability to change these flaws, and that they could do so by working together. In the remainder of his speech Clinton focused on the idea that people have too much access to media and informaton that is so easily biased based on what people want to hear and what they agree with. "In our media habits, we go to the television sites, we go to the radio talk shows, we go to the blog sites that agree with us, and it can have very bizarre consequences." Clinton left the graduates with his idea that the mission of every empowered person in the world should be to increase the positive forces and decrease the negative forces of the world's interdependence.
I chose this article because I thought it would be interseting to see what the President spoke about in his speech to graduates as I will soon be listening to a graduation speech myself. I thought the article was well written and enjoyed it. I thought Clinton made a pretty good point in that most people today listen only to media that they agree with and that they can use to destroy something they dont believe in, when what they should be doing is listening to both ends of the arguement and figuring out away to solve the problem in a way that will be beneficial.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2010-05-23-clinton-yale_N.htm
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