ENGLISH :

I know many of you were convinced last night at about six o’clock local time the world
was going to come to an end.
Just because it hasn’t doesn’t mean that it’s not nearby because my appearing today
at Yale University is surely one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
Today is your day.
Please, do not turn off your electronic devices.
Leave your iPhone, your iPad, your Sidekicks, your Droids, your blackberries powered up,
recording, photographing, texting out all that emerges from this stage over the next
few minutes.
Later on
today you can compare your tweets and your Facebook comments with those of others to
figure out if anything memorable went down.
You know what, tweet that last sentence I just said.
Take this speech and set it to music and maybe insert some crazy kooky graphics.
Starin' that video yourself and post on the web and if it becomes a viral sensation you’ll
be equal to any cat playing with a paper bag or any set of twin toddlers talking gibberish
to each other, as popular as that cute girl that sings about Fridays.
Just one of the possibilities in our brave new world, the world you now inherit whether
you’d like it or not.
The jig is up.
The clock has run out and the future with a capital ‘F’ now rests with all of you
all because you went to Yale.
You are now the anointed, the charge holders, the best and brightest.
Each of you is a shining hope for our nation in the world.
You are the new wizards who can finally make sense of all the delta vectors and square
roots and divided by’s out there that we call the human race.
The generations before you came of age took on the job and now it’s your turn.
I once had a friend, who had a rich uncle, who promised to pay for his college as long
as my friend wished to stay in school.
“You should stay in school as long as you can”the rich uncle said “because when
you get out of college you’ve got to work every day for the rest of your life.”
You all will come to understand what that rich uncle meant, just as surely as you will
someday wonder where the hell you put your reading glasses and yell at your own kids
to turn the damn music down.
On spring days like today, it’s traditional for us to ponder the state of the world and
implore you all to help make it a better place which implies that things are somehow worse
today than they were when we were sitting where you are right now.I’m not so sure
the planet earth is in worse shape than it was 30, no 18, no four years ago.
That’s not to say it’s in better shape either.
Refraining from waxing nostalgic and comparing our then to your now and avoiding any talk
of “You kids these days with your rap and your ‘hip-hopin’ and your ‘snoopy dogg
daddies with the diddy pops’, with your “fiddy” cents and your quarter cents…”
That sober look shows that just as world has gotten to be a better place after all, and
has also grown a bit worse at the exact same rate.
A one step up and one step back, sort of cosmic balance between forward progress and cultural
retreat that puts mankind on the bell curve of existence.
That shows a small segment in joy, ease and comfort while an equal portion struggle on
with little hope in the fortunes of the remainder, either on the rise or on the wane in this
confounding tide of so many damn things that we grow oblivious to the shifts in the quality
of our lives.
Graduation Day is the proper occasion to put a toe in the global waters and I think the
mercury shows that things are much as they always have been.
Ten years ago we busied ourselves with trivial stuff imbued with importance and then came
9/11.
In 1991 riches were created in new businesses that had never existed.
Then that economic balloon burst.In ’81 I had a great job on T.V. and in ’82 Bosom
Buddies was cancelled.
In ‘71 color T.V. in more living rooms than ever showed young Americans still fighting
in combat in Vietnam and in ‘61 satellites beamed live images around the world for the
very first time but those images were of the building of the Berlin Wall.
This ten-year grid shows the same yin yang thing; I’m trying to copyright that.
It shows the same yin yang thing.
We all have these devices that can make a permanent record of revolutionary change on
the other side of the globe as well as hate filled diatribes from across town.
Fewer and fewer in our country go to bed hungry but do you see how obesity now affects half
of our population?
No matter how many bargains we find at the local You-Mart many of us still struggle to
pay the rent and the utilities.
Our country is no longer in physical or even ideological war with our enemies, for most
of the last century, but in the 11 and half years of the third millennium our armed forces
have been fighting in the field for nine of them.
Purchasing intellectual property and the work of artists we admire is a simple as clicking
a mouse and paying less than a few bucks.
Which means you may find that there is no guarantee in making a living at your chosen
discipline.
Now some advantages particular to this age are not to be denied.
Boredom seems to have been vanquished.
There is always something to do, but hasn’t this translated into a perpetual distraction
in our lives, in the bathroom, at the dinner table, in the back seat, at a wedding, at
a graduation day?
There’s always something to check, something to tweet, something to watch, something to
download, something to share, something to buy, someone on a voice mail, something to
yank at our attention span and it’s all in the palm of our hand for a small monthly
service fee.
That same technology has allowed for a surplus of celebrities and that is nothing to cheer
about.
Anyone can enjoy the perks of notoriety now and the
duration of fame has been lengthened from Andy Warhol’s brief 15 minutes to a good
15 months if you’re willing to do certain things on camera.
Though Orwellian language is often the vocabulary of official new speak his boogie man that
was the all-seeing big brother has never emerged unless you live in North Korea or run a red
light in Beverly Hills or shop online or have done something stupid in the wrong place at
the wrong time in front of someone with a camera and their cell phone and that is everybody.
Pardon my junior college Latin, the vulgus populi has become the all-seeing state and
if you cross it, Google search will forever display your screw-up.
So actually there is a big brother but he’s not a malevolent fiction; he’s actually
all of us, who lives in our search engines.
So no matter how many times I do the calculations I come up with the social draw.
The positives balance the negatives.
The x’s equal the y’s and our hopes weigh as much as our fears but I hesitate on that
last one because fear, good lord, fear is a powerful physiological force of 2011.
We here up in stands and surrounding you graduating class look to you as we do every year, hoping
you will now somehow through your labors free us from what we have come to fear and we have
come to fear many things.
Fear has become the commodity that sells as certainly as sex.
Fear is cheap.
Fear is easy.
Fear gets attention.
Fear is spread as fast as gossip and is just as glamorous, juicy and profitable.Fear twist
facts into fictions that become indistinguishable from ignorance.
Fear is a profit-churning goto with the whole market being your whole family.
I was sitting at the house one day, watching the game on T.V.not long ago and along came
this promo for the local nightly news.
“Are our schools poisoning our children!?
That story and summer’s hottest bikinis tonight at 11:00.”
In that I had school-age kids at the time I feared that they were in fact being poisoned
at school and summer was still a few weeks away.
So I tuned in to get the scoop and the actual news story of that news broadcast was this.
A certain supply of hamburger was found to have a bit too much of a particular bacteria
in it and for safety’s sake was being taken off the market.
That same hamburger was slated for sale to an out of state school system for its cafeterias
but it was recalled in time.
So answering that news program’s own question, no
our schools were not poisoning our children but yes that summer there would be some very
hot bikinis at the beach.
The early American naval commander John Paul Jones said “If fear is cultivated it will
become stronger.
If faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.” and this is why I’m a big fan of history
because observations in the American colonies over 200 years ago by Nathan Hale, who lived
in that building right over there, translate word for word of the United States in 2011,
“For I take that fear to be fear in large-scale.
Fear itself intimidating and constant and I take faith to be what we hold in ourselves,
our American ideal of self-determination.”
Fear is whispered in our ears and shouted in our faces.
Faith must be fostered by the man or woman you see every day in the mirror.
The former forever snaps at our heels and delays our course.
The latter can spur our boot heels to be wandering, stimulate our creativity and drive us forward.
Fear or faith, which will be our master?
Three men found that they could no longer sleep because of their deep seeded fears.
This is a story I’m telling.
Their lives were in a state of stasis because of their constant worries.
So they set out on a pilgrimage to find a wiseman who lived high in the mountain, so
high up above the tree line that no vegetation grew, no animals lived, not even insects could
be found so high up in the mountains in that thin air.
When they reached his cave the first of the three said “Help me Wiseman for my fear
has crippled me.”
“What is your fear?” asked the Wiseman.
“I fear death.”
said the pilgrim.
“I wonder when it is going to come for me.”
“Death” said the wise men “let me take away this fear my friend.
Death will not come to call until you are ready for its embrace.
Know that and your fear will go away.”
This calmed that pilgrim’s mind and he feared death no longer.
The Wiseman then turned to the second pilgrim and said “What is it you fear my friend?”
“I fear my new neighbors.”
said the second pilgrim.“They are strangers who observe holy days different than mine.
They have way too many kids.
They play music that sounds like noise.”
“Strangers” said the Wiseman, “I will take away this fear my friend.
Return to your home and make a cake for your new neighbors.
Bring toys to their children.
Join them in their songs and learn their ways and you will become familiar with these neighbors
and your fear will go away.”
When the second man saw the wisdom in the simple instructions he knew he would no longer
fear the family who were his neighbors.
There in the cave so high in the mountains that nothing could live, the Wiseman turned
to the last pilgrim and asked of his fear.
“Oh Wiseman, I fear spiders.
WhenI try to sleep at night I imagine spiders dropping from the ceiling and crawling upon
my flesh and I cannot rest.”
“Spiders” said the Wiseman, “no shit why do you think I live way up here.”
Fear will get the worst of the best of us and peddlers of influence count on that.
Throughout our nation’s constant struggle to create a more perfect union, establish
justice and assure our domestic tranquility, we battle fear from outside our borders, from
within our own hearts every day of our history.
Our nation came to be despite fear of retribution for treason from a kingdom across the sea.
America was made strong and diverse because here people could live free from the fears
that made up their daily lives in whatever land they called the old country.
Our history books tell of the conflicts taken up to free people from fear, those kept in
slavery in our own states and deliberate whole nations under the rule of tyrants and theologies
rooted in fear.
The American cause, at its best, has been the cultivation of a faith that declares we
will all live in peace when we are all free to worship as we choose, when we are free
to express our hearts and when we all seek a place free from fear but we live in the
world where too many of us are too ready to believe in things that do not exist, conspiracies.
Divisions are constructed, the differences between us are not celebrated for making us
stronger but are calculated and programed to set us against each other.
Our faith is tested by unpredictable providence and threatened when common sense is corrupted
by specific interests speaking from 54 years of experience the work towards a more perfect
union isa never ending concern.
It involves each and every one of us.
Evidence that our nation is becoming a better place is everywhere but each new day fear
is, as the Jersey poet said, “Lurking in the darkness on the edge of town.”
Your rising from bed every morning will give fear it’s chance to grow stronger just as
it will afford faith its chance to blossom.
You will make the choice to react to one or create the other and because you are smart
enough to earn your place on this college day at Yale University you will sense the
moment and you will know what to do.
In the meantime ponder this front.
In the struggle against ceaseless fear and its ceaseless flow, in the coming months and
years veterans of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will finally come home for good after so many
tours.
Some after many tours that wore the body and the soul and spilled a great portion of their
lives.
For all of them, after a long time spent far away in the harsh realm of war, they’ve
returned different from what they were when they left.
Surely their faith in themselves is shadowed by a fear of not knowing what is expected
of them next.
No matter what your view of those wars over there you can affect the future of our nation
right here by taking their fears head on.
You can imprint the very next pages of the history of our troubled world by reinforcing
the faith of those returning veterans, allowing them to rest, aiding in their recovery, if
possible their complete recovery.
So let those of us who watched and debated their long deployments serve them now as they
served when they were asked and as they were ordered.
Let’s provide for them their place free from fear by educating them if they can learn,
by employing them as they transition from soldier back to citizen and by empathizing
with the new journey they’re starting even though we will never fully understand the
journey they just completed.
We all will define the true nature of our American identity, not by the parades and
the welcome home parties but how we match their time in the service with service of
our own.
Give it four years, as many years as you’ve spent here at Yale.
In acts both proactive and spontaneous and do the things you can to free veterans from
the new uncertainty that awaits them, from the mysterious fears they will face the day
after they come home.
Cultivate in them the faith to carry on and they will do the rest.
Your work begins, work that will not be always joyful to you, labor that may not always fulfill
you and days that will seem like one damn thing after the other.
It’s true you will now work every day for the rest of your lives, that full-time job,
your career as human beings and as Americans and as graduates of Yale is to stand on the
fulcrum between fear and faith, fear at your back, faith in front of you.
Which way will you lean?
Which way will you move?
Move forward, ever forward and tweet out a picture of the results.
It may make you famous.
Thank you and congratulations.
INDONESIA :
Saya tahu banyak dari Anda yang diyakinkan tadi malam sekitar jam enam waktu setempat dunia
akan berakhir.
Hanya karena bukan berarti tidak dekat karena kemunculan saya hari ini
di Universitas Yale jelas merupakan salah satu dari empat penunggang kuda kiamat.
Hari ini adalah hari mu.
Tolong, jangan matikan perangkat elektronik Anda.
Biarkan iPhone Anda, iPad Anda, Sidekicks Anda, Droid Anda, blackberry Anda menyala,
merekam, memotret, mengirim SMS semua yang muncul dari tahap ini ke tahap berikutnya
beberapa menit.
Kemudian
hari ini Anda dapat membandingkan tweet dan komentar Facebook Anda dengan tweet orang lain
mencari tahu apakah ada sesuatu yang berkesan turun.
Anda tahu, tweet kalimat terakhir yang baru saja saya ucapkan.
Ambillah pidato ini dan atur ke musik dan mungkin masukkan beberapa grafik kooky yang gila.
Bintangi video itu sendiri dan poskan di web dan jika itu menjadi sensasi viral, Anda akan
menyukainya
setara dengan kucing mana pun yang bermain dengan kantong kertas atau anak kembar yang
berbicara omong kosong
satu sama lain, sepopuler gadis cantik yang bernyanyi tentang hari Jumat.
Hanya salah satu kemungkinan di dunia baru kami yang berani, dunia yang sekarang Anda warisi
Anda suka atau tidak.
Jig sudah habis.
Jam telah habis dan masa depan dengan huruf besar 'F' sekarang ada di tangan Anda semua
semua karena kamu pergi ke Yale.
Anda sekarang adalah yang diurapi, pemegang tanggung jawab, yang terbaik dan paling cerdas.
Masing-masing dari Anda adalah harapan yang bersinar bagi bangsa kita di dunia.
Anda adalah penyihir baru yang akhirnya bisa memahami semua vektor delta dan persegi
akar dan dibagi dengan yang di luar sana yang kami sebut ras manusia.
Generasi sebelum Anda dewasa mengambil pekerjaan dan sekarang giliran Anda.
Saya pernah memiliki seorang teman, yang memiliki seorang paman kaya, yang berjanji akan
membiayai kuliahnya selama ini
karena teman saya ingin tetap bersekolah.
“Kamu harus tetap bersekolah selama kamu bisa” kata paman kaya itu “karena kapan
Anda lulus dari perguruan tinggi Anda harus bekerja setiap hari selama sisa hidup Anda. ”
Anda semua akan mengerti apa maksud paman kaya itu, sama pasti seperti yang Anda inginkan
suatu hari nanti bertanya-tanya di mana Anda meletakkan kacamata baca Anda dan berteriak pada
anak-anak Anda sendiri
untuk mematikan musik sialan itu.
Pada hari-hari musim semi seperti hari ini, sudah menjadi tradisi bagi kita untuk merenungkan
keadaan dunia dan
memohon kepada Anda semua untuk membantu menjadikannya tempat yang lebih baik yang
menyiratkan bahwa segala sesuatunya menjadi lebih buruk
hari ini daripada saat kami duduk di tempat Anda sekarang. Saya tidak begitu yakin
planet bumi dalam kondisi yang lebih buruk daripada 30, bukan 18, tidak empat tahun yang lalu.
Itu juga tidak berarti itu dalam kondisi yang lebih baik.
Menahan diri dari waxing nostalgia dan membandingkan waktu itu dengan Anda sekarang dan
menghindari pembicaraan apa pun
dari “Kalian anak-anak hari ini dengan rap Anda dan 'hip-hopin' Anda dan 'dogg snoopy Anda
daddies with the diddy pops ', dengan "fiddy" cents and your quarter cents ... "
Penampilan yang tenang itu menunjukkan bahwa sebagaimana dunia telah menjadi tempat yang lebih
baik, dan
juga tumbuh sedikit lebih buruk dengan kecepatan yang sama.
Satu langkah maju dan satu langkah mundur, semacam keseimbangan kosmik antara kemajuan maju
dan budaya
mundur yang menempatkan umat manusia pada kurva lonceng keberadaan.
Itu menunjukkan segmen kecil dalam kegembiraan, kemudahan dan kenyamanan sementara porsi
yang sama terus berjuang
dengan sedikit harapan pada keberuntungan sisanya, baik yang meningkat atau semakin berkurang
dalam hal ini
gelombang perancu dari begitu banyak hal terkutuk yang membuat kita tidak menyadari pergeseran
kualitas
dalam hidup kita.
Hari Wisuda adalah saat yang tepat untuk mempelajari perairan global dan saya pikir
merkuri menunjukkan bahwa banyak hal seperti biasanya.
Sepuluh tahun yang lalu kami menyibukkan diri dengan hal-hal sepele yang dijiwai dengan
kepentingan dan kemudian datang
9/11.
Pada tahun 1991 kekayaan diciptakan dalam bisnis baru yang tidak pernah ada.
Kemudian balon ekonomi itu meledak. Di tahun '81 saya memiliki pekerjaan yang hebat di TV dan di
'82 Bosom
Sobat dibatalkan.
Pada tahun '71 warna T.V. di lebih banyak ruang keluarga dari sebelumnya menunjukkan anak-anak
muda Amerika masih berjuang
dalam pertempuran di Vietnam dan di '61 satelit memancarkan gambar langsung ke seluruh dunia
untuk
pertama kali tetapi gambar-gambar itu adalah tentang bangunan Tembok Berlin.
Kisi sepuluh tahun ini menunjukkan hal yin yang sama; Saya mencoba untuk mendapatkan hak cipta
itu.
Ini menunjukkan hal yin yang yang sama.
Kita semua memiliki perangkat ini yang dapat merekam perubahan revolusioner secara permanen
sisi lain dunia serta kecaman penuh kebencian dari seluruh kota.
Semakin sedikit di negara kita yang tidur dalam keadaan lapar, tetapi apakah Anda melihat bagaimana
obesitas sekarang memengaruhi separuh
dari populasi kita?
Tidak peduli berapa banyak penawaran yang kami temukan di You-Mart lokal, banyak dari kita masih
berjuang untuk mendapatkannya
membayar sewa dan utilitas.
Negara kita tidak lagi dalam perang fisik atau bahkan ideologis dengan musuh kita, untuk sebagian
besar
abad terakhir, tetapi dalam 11 setengah tahun milenium ketiga angkatan bersenjata kita
telah bertarung di lapangan selama sembilan dari mereka.
Membeli kekayaan intelektual dan karya seniman yang kita kagumi semudah mengklik
seekor tikus dan membayar kurang dari beberapa dolar.
Yang berarti Anda mungkin menemukan bahwa tidak ada jaminan dalam mencari nafkah sesuai
pilihan Anda
disiplin.
Sekarang beberapa keuntungan
 Hanks menceritakan sebuah perumpamaan tentang pentingnya memupuk iman kita daripada
ketakutan kita sehingga kita semua bisa mengeluarkan yang terbaik dari kita. Dia berpidato di Yale
College Class of 2011 selama pidato Hari Kelas tradisional dan menawarkan wawasan dan dorongan
kepada para lulusan. Dalam Pidato ini, dia mengutip: "Takut atau keyakinan. Siapa yang akan
menjadi tuan kita?"