Listen to Steven Spielberg’s 5.25 Harvard commencement address [below] and then listen to Oliver Stone’s commencement address at UConn, which was posted earlier this month. The contrast is noteworthy. At the end of his address Stone tells the UConn-ers to “take a year off, be a bum, be a janitor, work with your hands, travel to some distant land second or third class” and basically break out of their entitled attitudes and smug presumptions. Can you imagine Spielberg suggesting this to the Harvard grads? Or to anyone?
