{"id":16187,"date":"2012-09-03T10:14:10","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T17:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=16187"},"modified":"2012-09-03T10:14:32","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T17:14:32","slug":"my-commencement-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/16187\/my-commencement-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"My commencement speech."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is me from <a href=\"http:\/\/selfadoration.com\/movie-of-the-week-my-commencement-speech\/3585\" target=\"_blank\">SelfAdoration.com:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What I&#8217;m doing here is a sort of commencement speech, a celebration of <em>my<\/em> moving on to a different state of excitation &#8212; even if everyone else stays exactly the same.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m using extended arguments about the idea of preferring the subjunctive to the existential to defend my way of thinking in a comprehensive way.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve spent my whole life thinking about how to talk to you &#8212; I say that in the movie &#8212; and this little clip may be the most comprehensive job I have done so far of communicating at least this small idea: <em>We are not talking about the same things.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t trade in your currency &#8212; I say that in the film also &#8212; but I am trying to convey to you why my currency is so much better for you than the stuff you&#8217;ve been trading with until now.<\/p>\n<p>This stuff ain&#8217;t easy, I know, and it is plausible to me that my take-no-prisoners approach makes things harder for you, not easier. Oh, well&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This is me at my most me, the meest of the mes I have presented in these videos &#8212; all of which are intended to acquaint you with my style of being as the result of your having spent time with me being me.<\/p>\n<p>I love this movie. I hope you do, too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The video is in this YouTube clip. Fair warning, it&#8217;s 40 minutes long.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_8jl-yYhneY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is me from SelfAdoration.com: What I&#8217;m doing here is a sort of commencement speech, a celebration of my moving on to a different state of excitation &#8212; even if everyone else stays exactly the same. But I&#8217;m using extended arguments about the idea of preferring the subjunctive to the existential to defend my way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,212,29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16187","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-egoism-in-action","7":"category-flourishing","8":"category-group-therapy","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3152,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3152\/bloodhoundblog-unchained-commencement-news-and-then-to-bed\/","url_meta":{"origin":16187,"position":0},"title":"BloodhoundBlog Unchained: Commencement news, and then to bed","author":"Greg Swann","date":"May 20, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I've already been to sleep once, briefly. 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