Dustin Lance Black | We Should Have Hope For The New Decade (3/8) | Oxford Union

[@valerieschiano2959]

Holy conviction and passion! I could listen to him speak all day and twice on Sunday. DLB gets better every time he opens his mouth. Ummm, wait… that sounded funny.

[@elainecheckley]

DLB's passion, brilliance is SO inspiring, I cry every time I listen to him speak. Thank you, Lance for ALL you do to make this world a better place.

[@JoyjeetGupta]

HOPE... that's what I get everytime I hear you

[@jamesallen9401]

very well spoken, Lance

[@JoyjeetGupta]

Welcome back brother Black

[@ericduffield524]

Excellent!!!

[@Nitrogen858]

Well said 👏🏾

[@dd4747]

Awesome speech sir, I plan to see you on the global stage! Hopefully your spirit isn’t screwed by politics

[@cb8199]

DLB is awesome...

[@archiesmith4330]

WOOPWOOP! GO LAANCE!

[@shads_5045]

Well spoken and argue with great passion but not realistic and will not happen not just in the next decade or next 50 decades

[@ianheart4843]

In order to make it realistic.. we are the one that need to take action.. They are not fortune teller to tell you ramification of the next decades, they are debators that debate based on their observation. It's not realistic yeah but it's a great point, speech and debate.

[@robinusher5707]

This is what hubris sounds like.

[@Hybridlife98]

Doesn’t even try and hide it.

[@jaredmccann6508]

Jobs give hope
Industry manufacturing is the poor hope. Trump see this and the poor and down trodden and give hope.
See the most creative people have ADHD and Dyslexia most of these people can read very well and are artists and creators. With out academic standing with creators we will not forge the future. Manufacturers
Create opportunities for invention.

[@shau-lin4629]

BS

[@alexaaa7174]

Thats bs man

[@jaredmccann6508]

wow
Bill gates
Steve jobs
Elon musk
Tesla
Davinrci
Henry Ford
Einstein
Steven Spielberg
To name a few

[@edwardhammond5689]

great speech but couldn't. help being distracted by his overly large collar

[@krystalccameron7689]

I feel his passion, but this is an argument too based in anecdotes to be convincing to me. Also, the young woman on the dais is killing me with her bad posture...it’s distracting...

[@krystalccameron7689]

Virgil Madruga advances in the tech industry, improvements in education, activism, strides made in the Information Age, equality of opportunity and statistics for female matriculation, improvements in freedom of speech and movement, increased transparency in the political sphere. All these can be positives that bode well for the new decade and could’ve made his argument more convincing. Btw, I don’t believe there’s hope for the coming decade, but I do believe his argument could’ve been more convincing.

[@krystalccameron7689]

Virgil Madruga I forgot to mention medical innovations. I disagree with your view that an empirical rather than purely anecdotal argument would’ve been meaningless. He could’ve done a comparison of some of the factors I mentioned and how they’ve increased wealth, integration and health in the last 3 decades and how expectations of there continued development and innovations based on investment and visibility can be projected to improve quality of life, etc in the coming decade similar to the previous 3. For me, ‘when I was 3 I had a kitten and the kitten ran away and I was sad but I believed and the kitten came back, therefore you should believe too’ is the very definition of a weak argument.

[@krystalccameron7689]

Virgil Madruga I didn’t mean ‘believe’ in a religious sense, I meant ‘believe that the kitten would come home’ 😹. Implied is not enough, his whole bit would’ve been great for a dinner discussion, but was weak for an Oxford Union debate. I’m glad we agree 😽

[@krystalccameron7689]

Virgil Madruga empirical evidence is usually a good idea for a strong argument, otherwise, we’re all just story tellers...

[@krystalccameron7689]

Tom Herndon tremendous luck Tom, I bring people around all the time! The secret is to acknowledge and empathize with preconceived notions and help them recognize how they came to hold those notions so passionately. I have a friend who thanks me all the time for the difficult conversation that helped him leave organized religion.

[@PaulSmith-pf2uq]

In every single of his arguments, there was despair that needed hope, as there was no other way. But just look at the state we are and how we came to be in this desperate position. For the last 10 years, everything is getting worst; global finances, global politics, global climate, pandemics etc. All of these show that the way down is inevitable. Hope is not going to solve anything. Being realistic and pro-active will!

[@PaulSmith-pf2uq]

Virgil Madruga Then why hope???

[@PaulSmith-pf2uq]

Virgil Madruga Then, what was the point of his talk? Nobody told people they shouldn't have any hope if they want to.

[@PaulSmith-pf2uq]

Virgil Madruga That's right! This is how we know we are not just people from the past. Hope is for the desperate and in 2020, we shouldn't be that. There's science and there's enough money for everyone. The fact that we don't see it is because a bunch of very few greedy bastards are hoarding it. Let's be pro-active and have a French revolution, I say. Let's stop this medieval torture of poverty!

[@PaulSmith-pf2uq]

Virgil Madruga The question was if we should have hope for the next 10 years, not if hope should exist about few things that are not vital. Hope encourages people to do nothing but hope.

[@RussCR5187]

To me, the issue is how to remain proactive in the face of such long odds. I think part of the answer is to define hope as something separate from outcome. Here is what Vaclav Havel, former president of the Czech Republic, said about that: "“Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.” For me it makes sense to honor the precious rarity of life in the known universe by working hard to ensure its continuance and betterment here on Earth, especially for the sake of our children and grandchildren.