Have you noticed modernity doesn’t have a ‘revered elder’ type role? Closest thing is professor emeritus.
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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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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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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 keep saying this: America is living in the long shadow of the culture wars of the 1960s.
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Worshiping the old induces slow change. Worshiping the young induces fast change.
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Are it saying a government just proclaiming “you are valuable.” Or something of a cultural role?






