Ah, the pleasures of the unbidden commencement address! Here is Cockeyed Platonist (CP) delivering his own version in which he recites the virtues of a mindless bourgeois political and moral conformity,always addressed to those wily heteros and their backsliding ways: not to mention the personal note of bitter nostalgia about reliving life. But, here is a jarring political observation:'But, especially this year, one is conscious of the many ways in which this year’s graduating class has been ill served by their elders. They enter a bad job market, the hangover from decades of excessive borrowing. They inherit a ruinous federal debt.' CP's constant companion is his irremediable bad faith: he simply can't shake his bad habit of lying by commission or omission and especially about the failure of the 'Free Market' experiment that went so wrong in 2008. And signed by Bill Clinton ,at that. The world of 21st Century Capitalism is fraught with dangers, but none that our thinker would care to focus upon, or even candidly access.
What is 'baby boomer theology' except a nasty aside about a generation of irresponsible,willful, selfish and self-indulgent monsters that is one of  the central themes of modern American Conservatism? Dare to dream the great crabbed hetero conformist dream of our petite bourgeois thinker, that he offers as antidote to the all the cliche ridden dreams and aspirations, that are expressed by the inheritors of that corrupt 'theology'. CP's great admonition is 'live as I have lived'! Do not aspire to anything else! Do not dream of something else, of something more noble, more fulfilling: even if the risks and rewards be great. Which brings us to the sad, the dismal nihilism at the center of this meditation, on the rightness of a lived life and all its leaden charms.
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