You're overexposed to the younger members because they're the ones with the time to go to things like refactor camp or meetups or hang out shitposting all day on twitter. My average reader is probably just a year or two younger than me. Interactions with older 45% is 1:1/email
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I have heard, when the student is rdy the master will appear. Those before us transition through late adulthood & elderhood; we too can be intitiated through the process of “aging to saging”. Maybe the societal archetype is harder to identify—in my own path, they have appeared.
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When the student is ready, the nearest convenient person who looks the part is coopted as a teacher
Many people try to look the part
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What about a Mandela, Carter, Angelou? -- granting that they would only be seen as such from half the polity.
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We are invisible. You cannot see us but we see you.
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That's not revered elder, that's just elder :D Revered means you have to wear fancy ceremonial clothes and sit in the front row where you can be seen
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I consider the authors of the most impact books I've read to be in this role... I've just never had the chance to meet any of them :(
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Well, way to throw shade at me

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