Commencement Snobbery

I heard the first report of a college graduation somewhere the other day, so it's only a matter of time until numerous  commencement speakers are going to be addressing the bright and shining faces of those who will be deemed, by those purporting to know,  "the best and the brightest."  For such a superlative to hold any meaning at all requires that there must be somewhere  out there a control group if you will composed of "the worst and the dullest."   Really, it means nothing to have everything if you're unable to measure your gains against those who have much less.  That's the way capitalism works.