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See, here's the thing, if the young are not properly raised up (and in this white-dominated, north American culture they/we are not) there will be no trustworthy adults or elders. Trusting youth is just as hazardous as trusting the old.

Let me trouble this word "conservative" too. Sure in the political lexicon of our day it is a bad word. Yet conservation of the wild of this planet is a worthy goal. Perhaps there is a function to the elder being conservative if it means having an eye toward not destroying the living world through youthful shortsightedness and no idea about how it all really is, in the fullness of time.

Some of us are going to need to become adults.