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34: Zev Weinstein - On Parenting, Boys & Generation Z

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Is There a Wisdom Drought?

i think one of the things that we see in most eras, but this era particularly, is that certain parts of speech become censored. They become inappropriate. And i think that's why it's very important to have someone who remembers in older im jut, till you listen, this isn't necessarily a good thing to say. Well, sometimes the vehicle can be inappropriate. So, for example, we've talked before about canned humor. Your grandfather, my father, loves to tell old jokes with punch lines,. which is an old style that almost nobody does engages in any more. It turns out that a lot of those jokes weren't even really about humour. They were about teaching life lessons

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