Mentorship is over
Shunning 'mentors', honoring patrons
Society is stratifying. 20th century paths for upward mobility are fading. Men need to adjust accordingly, and part of this is learning to win the patronage of established older figures.
Modernity has lost the grammar of how an ambitious young man relates to a powerful older one. The script we teach is implicitly corporate and egalitarian — ‘reach out’,…
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