Commencement Speech

"I've never been invited to deliver a commencement address. And I probably should never be so invited, for I already know the title I would choose: "Don't Change the World." I would explain that it's okay -- indeed, admirable -- to change the world marginally, incrementally, by engaging in voluntary actions. But all the "change the world" talk that high-school and college graduates get presumes that change, any change, is desirable -- as if the world is such a decrepit place that nothing about is worth preserving (except, of course, "the environment"). And all this "change the world" talk also tends to presume that doing things politically is the best way to effect worthwhile change."
-Don Boudreaux