{"id":38415,"date":"2013-05-09T14:38:19","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T12:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=38415"},"modified":"2013-05-09T14:39:41","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T12:39:41","slug":"this-is-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=38415","title":{"rendered":"THIS IS WATER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/vimeo.com\/65576562<\/p>\n<p>Simply superb.In 2005, author David Foster Wallace was asked to give the commencement address to the 2005 graduating class of Kenyon College. However, the resulting speech didn&#8217;t become widely known until 3 years later, after his tragic death. It is, without a doubt, some of the best life advice we&#8217;ve ever come across, and perhaps the most simple and elegant explanation of the real value of education.Read the full speech<a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080213082423\/http:\/\/www.marginalia.org\/dfw_kenyon_commencement.html\" target=\"_blank\"> here<\/a>. Created by  The Glossary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/vimeo.com\/65576562 Simply superb.In 2005, author David Foster Wallace was asked to give the commencement address to the 2005 graduating class of Kenyon College. However, the resulting speech didn&#8217;t become widely known until 3 years later, after his tragic death. It is, without a doubt, some of the best life advice we&#8217;ve ever come across, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[193,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videos","category-virals"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":148518,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=148518","url_meta":{"origin":38415,"position":0},"title":"The case for free speech (even when it\u2019s harmful)","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"23\/09\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/H1yWw530ZXY?si=1eCt1xoQYNpjBpvY Defending free speech, even for your enemies, is essential for minorities, and for freedom and equality to thrive.\u201d Jacob Mchangama, founder of The Future of Free Speech, explains how free speech has shaped America, from Frederick Douglass fighting slavery to Supreme Court cases protecting voices that promote hate. 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