![]() Plus, I can’t police every pharmacy selling Happy Graduation cards.Īlso, why are you even invoking me as your hero? I hope it’s because I was an early environmentalist and articulated some admirable civic ideals, even if I didn’t really live up to them. I mean, you don’t see me freaking out about my “eyes on the stars … feet on the ground” quote. I swear, if I find out that speech is in an Ethereum commercial, I will get on God’s calendar to pitch another flood. But all you got from it was the smarter-sounding version of “haters gonna hate.” It’s nearly nine thousand words about democracy, privilege, character, social progress, and collectivism. When I spoke of the man “whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood,” I was not picturing a twenty-three-year-old Elon Musk fanboy who won’t learn someone’s pronouns.Īlso, not that you’ve read it, but the speech is called “Citizenship in a Republic.” The arena thing is kind of an intro. I became President at age forty-two I created the National Parks System I won a Nobel Peace Prize I gave a ninety-minute speech with a bullet in my chest. I’ve been reading A People’s History of the United States, and, well, yikes.īut there’s no denying I did stuff. I realize 40 to 100 percent of my whole deal has aged poorly. Look, your boy Theo has done a lot of thinking since dying in 1919. ![]() Maybe you agree with them, maybe you don’t, but I’ll be damned if my legacy is going to boil down to shitty men’s go-to “sorry-not-sorry” quote. About nature and morality and democracy and monopoly. ![]() ![]() I did not make that speech at the Sorbonne so that a mid-tier YouTuber could address his history of bigoted comments with, “Sometimes when you’re the guy in the arena, shit happens, ya feel?” Not when it became a Cadillac commercial, or the name of a Tom Brady documentary, or even a reference in Nixon’s resignation speech.īut you have pushed me too far. I’ve let my “man in the arena” quote be twisted for over a hundred years and said nothing. ![]()
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