You really want it broken down? The story is about a celebrity giving a commencement speech at MIT. You then make a provocative observation that celebrities a

You really want it broken down? The story is about a celebrity giving a commencement speech at MIT. You then make a provocative observation that celebrities are "held in the highest esteem above all categories of occupation". Which is a clear over-generalization meant to spark conversation on the topic. The most likely trajectory (by far) of any conversation that would be spawned from such a statement would be the traditional criticism: "why do we listen to celebrities so much when they usually don't know what they're talking about?". Hence the inference is that you're trying to criticize Matt Damon's speech. Put more succinctly, the nature of the conversation a person is trying to start is typically a strong indicator of their perspective.