Assuage Guilt: Get Inspired. Do Something.

By jjacquet on May 14, 2009.

President Obama gives an inspiring commencement speech at Arizona State University fitting for anyone feeling guilty about privilege, the poverty of ambition, and the insufficiency of material culture...

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