這兩天，小編在網(wǎng)上許多論壇看到號(hào)稱“史上最狂妄的演講”，即Oracle的CEO——Larry. Ellison在耶魯大學(xué)給畢業(yè)生們進(jìn)行的演講。想進(jìn)一步看到當(dāng)時(shí)現(xiàn)場(chǎng)視頻的小編開(kāi)始尋找。

在查找的時(shí)候，小編想盡了各種方法，甚至采用“非常手段”去youtube查L(zhǎng)arry. Ellison的視頻，都不見(jiàn)這篇演講的“身影”。在逛到清華水木社區(qū)的一個(gè)轉(zhuǎn)載這篇演講稿、并且以“史上最?！毖葜v稿作為噱頭的帖子時(shí)，有人在回帖中指出，這篇演講稿是個(gè)世紀(jì)大騙局，乃他人杜撰，甚至嘲笑樓主太火星，“tooooooooo old"。

但是，這篇演講稿活靈活現(xiàn)，早就被各大論壇爭(zhēng)相轉(zhuǎn)載，百度百科關(guān)于Larry. Ellison的詞條也有收錄。并且描述說(shuō)在演講途中，Larry. Ellison被迫帶下講壇，似乎為他接下來(lái)要演講的內(nèi)容帶上了一種神秘色彩。同時(shí)也令人無(wú)比驚訝，原來(lái)號(hào)稱言論自由的美國(guó)，校方也會(huì)當(dāng)場(chǎng)“架走”正在演講的名人。

小編頓時(shí)迷惑了，一方面網(wǎng)上的轉(zhuǎn)載不斷，很多是知名的論壇，并且很多人都相信而且“力挺”這位敢說(shuō)真話、大膽有能力的CEO；另一方面，又有不少網(wǎng)友出來(lái)指出這篇演講稿實(shí)際上是假的。

此時(shí)，小編找到了一篇內(nèi)容詳實(shí)的辟謠文章，現(xiàn)摘錄如下：

In July 2000, an inventive story about Oracle CEO Larry Ellison bestowing an unusual commencement speech upon the graduating class of Yale University began popping up in various inboxes. Some were left wondering if this could be the real thing, given what is known of Ellison's famed ego, and because the wide circulation of the 1997 Kurt Vonnegut commencement speech hoax had prepared the way for this piece to sound plausible.

In truth, Ellison did not give a such a speech at Yale, nor anywhere else. The article was the fanciful creation of Andrew Marlatt, a writer for the satire website, SatireWire. It was reprinted (with SatireWire's express permission) on BBspot, another satirical web site.

Should there still be any remnant of doubt about the veracity of the article in question, Yale didn't have a guest speaker at its 299th graduation ceremony, held in May 2000. Yale seniors received a more personal address on Class Day, another part of this two-day commencement ceremony. The keynote speaker for that event was Bob Woodward, who graduated from Yale in 1965. (His investigation of the Watergate break-in helped win a Pulitzer Prize for The Washington Post in 1973.)

Larry Ellison is a prime choice for such lampooning because this thrice-married, thrice-divorced multimillionaire is known for living? larger than life. A 1997 unofficial biography was titled The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison: God Doesn't Think He is Larry Ellison.

文章大意為：該演講出自諷刺性網(wǎng)站SatireWire富于想象力的作家安Andrew Marlatt（德努?馬拉特）的手筆，后來(lái)，文章被轉(zhuǎn)載在了另外一個(gè)諷刺性網(wǎng)站BBspot上。

因?yàn)榘＠锷亓ⅹ?dú)行的個(gè)性人盡皆知，所以他成為了這一“騙局“最佳的選擇，又因?yàn)?997年他曾經(jīng)在惡作劇地在Bonnegut網(wǎng)站發(fā)表開(kāi)場(chǎng)白演說(shuō)，并被廣為流傳，所以大多數(shù)人不會(huì)懷疑這篇演說(shuō)的真實(shí)性。

1997年他的一本傳記名字就叫做《拉里?埃里森和上帝的區(qū)別：上帝認(rèn)為他不是拉里?埃里森》。而拉里?埃里森寫(xiě)那么一篇諷刺性的文章的初衷是因?yàn)樗顭o(wú)羈，且是一個(gè)三次結(jié)婚三次離婚的億萬(wàn)富翁。

事實(shí)上，埃里森并沒(méi)有在耶魯大學(xué)作過(guò)演講，也沒(méi)有在其他地方作過(guò)這樣的演講。

到了這里，事實(shí)似乎真相大白。但是，還是有網(wǎng)友爭(zhēng)相轉(zhuǎn)載Larry. Ellison的這篇演講稿，并且稱他為“最勇敢的演講人”。演講稿的“讀大學(xué)無(wú)用論”也被很多人認(rèn)同。

也許，在如今大學(xué)生就業(yè)率下降、投入與產(chǎn)出嚴(yán)重不平衡的今天，這篇演講稿的真實(shí)性已經(jīng)不再重要，重要的是它說(shuō)出了很多大學(xué)生心中的疑惑與吶喊。

當(dāng)然，讀者們?nèi)绻信d趣的話，也可以試著幫忙找找這篇演講稿的視頻或者音頻。