“You have a responsibility to listen to the dissent in yourself.” A Transcript of Joss Whedon's 2013 Wesleyan Commencement Speech “You are all going to die.” Joss Whedon, famed writer, director, and living symbol of nerdly equality, opened Sunday's Wesleyan graduation commencement speech with this statement, and like most things that issue forth from Whedon the humor of the statement masked a deep truth about living. Whedon was present to accept an.