Totally Like Whatever by Taylor Mali

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Description: Everyone's favorite Slam Poet, Taylor Mali, performs his speech 'Totally Like Whatever' Credits go to "Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry" Episode 1, Season 2 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0691657/ ~ SPEECH (in it's original) ~ In case you hadn't realized, it has somehow become uncool to sound like you know what you're talking about? Or believe strongly in what you're saying? Invisible question marks and parenthetical (you know?)'s have been attaching themselves to the ends of our sentences? Even when those sentences aren't, like, questions? You know? Declarative sentences - so-called because they used to, like, DECLARE things to be true as opposed to other things which were, like, not - have been infected by a totally hip and tragically cool interrogative tone? You know? Like, don't think I'm uncool just because I've noticed this; this is just like the word on the street, you know? It's like what I've heard? I have nothing personally invested in my own opinions, okay? I'm just inviting you to join me in my uncertainty? What has happened to our conviction? Where are the limbs out on which we once walked? Have they been, like, chopped down with the rest of the rain forest? Or do we have, like, nothing to say? Has society become so, like, totally . . . I mean absolutely . . . You know? That we've just gotten to the point where it's just, like . . . whatever! And so actually our disarticulation . . . ness is just a clever sort of . . . thing to disguise the fact that we've become the most aggressively inarticulate generation to come along since . . . you know, a long, long time ago! I entreat you, I implore you, I exhort you, I challenge you: To speak with conviction. To say what you believe in a manner that bespeaks the determination with which you believe it. Because contrary to the wisdom of the bumper sticker, it is not enough these days to simply QUESTION AUTHORITY. You have to speak with it, too.
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asraiSOA ::: Favorites Quite simply, BRILLIANT!!! 07-10-10 07:26:16 __________________________________________________
ThePhantom500 ::: Favorites That was brillian man, Taylor Mali, I give you my hat my friend. 07-10-02 21:48:51 __________________________________________________
love4shihtzus ::: Favorites I could not agree more with this guy. 07-09-23 22:29:52 __________________________________________________
Enkerli ::: Favorites Speech communities have diverse sets of rules about hedges. Open-mindedness and lack of decisiveness are often confused. Too bad Mali uses those differences derisively, they can be more fun than this. 07-09-18 16:23:32 __________________________________________________
blackconservative ::: Favorites Totally cool,totally 07-09-23 11:00:39 __________________________________________________
guigoft ::: Favorites what he's good, he practices a lot too 07-09-18 00:39:30 __________________________________________________
hend6475 ::: Favorites um yeah. like. that was awesome? i really believe in what he was saying, ya know what i mean? 07-09-17 19:52:53 __________________________________________________
61862006 ::: Favorites brilliant, yet another gr8 speech. 07-09-17 14:02:40 __________________________________________________
SparklestheClown ::: Favorites That was really good! Sparklesthe Clown 07-09-17 13:34:36 __________________________________________________