In David Foster's commencement speech at Kenyon College in 2005, his idea is that life consists of fundamental choices that lie entirely with the human person and allow them to engage the world differently. I think his idea is correct. In the speech he says we all have self- center-nests in us and that we all believe the world revolves around us.
That mindset that we all have that makes us think that everything revolves around us is the main reason why he says fundamental choices lie entirely on the human person. Now in the speech David went over my head a lot of times with some of his analogies for proving his idea on life. But, I kinda understood what he was talking about when he talked about the selfishness in us.
I don't believe his full idea is credible in my opinion, but his idea about selfishness is a good one. I don't believe it is a credible idea because everyone is not going to have the same experience in life and some people will object to his ideas. You can tell in the speech that David feels that their is nothing else to live for in his life and that he was depressed. As a result of this I think people in the audience didn't connect with his speech because they were laughing at parts that were not needed.
Honestly I engage these choice's usually by going with my "gut" feeling and not really thinking outside of my actions. Some of my choices are how I feel at the time and some choices I am forced to do. I never really thought about David's point of view of choices so his idea is new to me.
I think people clap when David is insulting them for many reasons. I think the main reason is because they don't really fully understand what he is saying and they are just clapping to clap. Another reason might be that they don't realize that he is not only insulting them but the world. I could understand this, because I too have clapped during a speech, but did not actually listen to the speech. I believe this is indicative of the audience not fully listening.
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