"If you brought people from 300 years ago or 3000 years ago to live among us now, I think the first thing that would stun them is just simply our material abundance and our tools," he says. "I don't think we're serving our kids very well by allowing them to live these hyper age segregated lives." The author's advice for millennials: Be happy in life if you have a meaningful way to contribute to your community.
The US senator and former college president joined Tyler for a conversation on adolescence, adulthood, driving for Uber, loving Luther, hate-reading Rousseau, the decline of small towns, backpacking across Europe, America’s peculiar fondness for age-segregation, and why his latest book contains so little sex.
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Recorded June 14th, 2017
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