The models of adulthood are disappearing fast. How can two people have a new marriage if neither of them is an adult?

When an elder turns to face the dead, that means he turns away from facing the future and his own retirement in Phoenix, let's say. He turns and finds himself facing the children.

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.'

The distance between the adolescent and the true adult is about five thousand miles, but the distance between the adult and the elder is almost as large.

I use the phrase 'sibling society' to suggest a culture fundamentally without fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, or ancestors. The thinking is horizontal.

By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.

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.