The Unleashing of Socratic Energy

I caught the last third of Cornel West's address at Washington University on February 2nd to kick off Black History month. I can't say I agreed with all his points, but the caliber of his delivery, vocabulary, and overall rhetoric is at a level rarely seen in this day and age. Truly inspiring. Credit to the student newspaper, Student Life for the quotes:

"We live in a hotel civilization. A hotel civilization is a civilization in which people are obsessed with comfort, contentment, and convenience, where the lights are always on. [We] don't have time for questions. We don't have time for such interrogations." -C West, 2 February 2006