A commencement address from my generation to this generation. How different the world is for idealistic youth as they try to figure out how to patch it all back up after the social attitudes they have taken four years to assimilate. A sample but worth reading the lot:

Your life has been a nonstop ride of work, study and fun. Now, though, you’re about to walk out of those iron gates and … what? You’re headed into the most challenging labor market of the last 80 years.

Because you’re driven and have been told over and over in speeches like this one to follow your passion, you’re going to write eye-catching job query letters and send them with bulging resumes to the heads of Greenpeace, the Aspen Music Festival, ESPN, the Clinton Global Initiative, “The Colbert Report” and Tesla Motors TSLA -5.29% .

That will take three days. Then you’re going to have months and possibly years of free time ahead of you. Free time that you won’t know how to fill, because you’ve never really had any before.

Grim and not so funny.