But today, when youth is revered and age is equated with obsolescence and irrelevance, that role and its sage counsel have been lost. It's not that we as a culture don't have desperate need for such wisdom. We do.
Perhaps more than ever given the intractable and unsustainable issues we face, an over-indebted world economy, resource depletion, species loss, eroding civil liberties, etc.
In this week's podcast, Stephen Jenkinson, author of the new book, Come of Age: The Case for Elderhood in a Time of Trouble, returns to explain how the role of elder might be re-instated.
It won't be easy, but it may just be one of the essential ingredients we need to make it through the challenge times ahead.
- Source, Peak Prosperity
