A Speech Among Speeches

Principal Drisdin, Trustees, Faculty members, family, friends and, lastly, fellow graduates, today is a day to be thankful and to be inspired.

Imagine, if you will, what we were like four years ago before we even stepped foot into this walled institution of mental instilling. How young we were. How naive we were. How unprepared for existence we were. We were but clay blocks, uncut and unheated. Now we have been molded in their likeness, their image for us. We are the canvas for their art to be displayed.

I must first thank the faculty of this outstanding establishment. I know that we have often joked about their ability to oversee everything we do, it really is unnecessary at times, yet it has been a boon to our educational learning process. The “Greater Good” program really is one of the more adequate approaches I have seen towards the betterment of one’s intellectual development. The concept of always having an older classmate, or older brother, watch over you and make sure you are not straying from the path is an incredible aid, or at least I have always thought so.

As for my fellow students of this fine academy, before I continue, please look around at your companions and allies that sit among you. Observe the uniform; black slacks, white shirt, black tie, white headdress, and the black shoes we all adorn now. Our personal expressiveness has never been more clear and concise than at this very moment. Breathe it in for a second, if you will, the next breathe you take will be the start of your “actual” life. The time, or moment, where you literally begin to define yourself. Go ahead and exhale now.

The friendships that you have established here are but beautiful diminishing stars in the night sky. You all feel that you have become so close over the past years. You feel that you truly have found the friends that will remain there for all time. Yet what have you actually found? Leeches, that is what you have found. You merely latch onto each other only to suck the net of security further in your direction, so as to not stand out in the crowd in a negative light. God forbid that one of you may show some sort of sign of individuality or creativity in that thought diffused mind of yours.

One thing that I was constantly pondering when I wrote this speech was the concept of inspiration. What is it that inspires me to continue my existence and further my social status? Christopher Morgan. You all know him. He is a fellow student, or actually ex-student, who is a great inspiration to myself and to a few other students, not for obvious reasons. He is a man who did not sit down with the rest of us. He took it upon himself to stand up and show that he exists. Granted he did this through unconventional, and even lesser social means, yet you all know his name now, don’t you? He stood up for what he believed in, as we all should stand up for what we believe in. Again, I do not support the attempted assassination of our current faculty or, more importantly, Principal Drisdin, yet it did allow Mr. Morgan the ability to escape from our academic normality.


I am also inspired by William Truce and Emily Collisins who are leaving later this week to start their careers as governmental agents. By now everyone should understand how I feel about such matters. Those that enter are giving up all judicial rights that allow them the common luxuries of being known as “human” and thus simply become rusting cogs in the machine that keeps our society in order. Bravo to you two and best of luck with the mental conditioning. Best to say farewell to your family and friends before you leave.

Often on graduation day we look outside for heroes but I see them right here among us. I have seen in my four years at Die Regierung Academy that we don’t have to look far for inspiration and that we each have our own individual unique creativity to grace upon the world. After all, this unique creativity was mass instilled into us so as to ensure we each had our own understanding of what it means to be creative.

When you leave here, celebrate what you have learned but look forward with an eye on the person next to you, knowing that they too have been instilled with the same information as you. They are your brother. They are your ally. They are your companion. They are you.

Now, congratulations Class of 2031. You people think you are so unique yet, in reality, you are simply falling into the pit of social and governmental normality that has its grip around your throat.

Good night and enjoy the rest of your life, my fellow students.




(The writer of this speech was found deceased one hour later behind the gymnasium of Die Regierung Academy. Bruises were found around the base of his neck, various lacerations and bruises on his back and ribs. The cause of fatality is said to be the eleven bullet wounds found in the chest cavity of the writer.)