Vertical thought likes to imagine the vast distances between the stars.

Adulthood has something to do with not choosing any of the pure points of view, but living about half of what you really want to live.

The French still offer Sartre and Derrida rather than Pascal.

Adolescents believe that the world belongs to the living, or more particularly to living people their age, so they feel within their rights if they destroy the canon or rewrite the fairy stories or act like Red Guards.

The ancestors are very much invested in the children, because the children are the ones who are going to continue the world that the ancestors made.

Vertical attention is not the same as, and doesn't evolve from nor imply, hierarchy. We could say that hierarchy is associated with power, and vertical attention with longing for the Divine Feminine, for the Divine Masculine, for what the Sufis call 'wine.'

I think more and more people are recognizing how much adults and elders are actually needed. That's a gift of the sibling society.