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#72 Stephen Jenkinson: culture activist, farmer, grief walker

The Wisdom & Action Podcast

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The Preoccupation With Youth Is the Principal Reason for the Scarcity of Elderhood

When early draft of this book got leaked out, it turns out it was by me. Though i was looking for people to blame, i had inadvertently done it myself. The preoccupation with youth and agility and competenc o diction are the thumb prints of the dominant culture of north america. There's no question about it. But do you really imagine that it would be in the repertoire of an elder, in a time where elderhood is in deep disrepair? That's what i wondered. It seems to me the stakes are extraordinarily high to day. So there's many a thing at stake.

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