As some of us complained about our recent commencement speaker recently, someone remarked that no commencement address is ever very good. There is one, I piped up, and that’s David Foster Wallace’s talk at Kenyon College in 2005. It should be read at every graduation everywhere, and maybe then the world would be spared.
An outfit called The Glossary has turned an excerpt from that talk into a pretty good short film. This was probably made for purposes of promotion as well as homage; I hope they get filthy rich.