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Finally, older people in traditional societies have a huge significance that would never occur to us in our modern, literate societies, where our sources of information are books and the Internet.
In contrast, in traditional societies without writing, older people are the repositories of information.
Those, then, are the ways in which older people are useful in traditional societies.
Well, what has changed in the status of the elderly today compared to their status in traditional societies?
Perhaps the biggest change for the worse is that our elderly are objectively less useful than in traditional societies.
The slow pace of technological change in traditional societies means that what someone learns there as a child is still useful when that person is old, but the rapid pace of technological change today means that what we learn as children is no longer useful 60 years later.
In short, many traditional societies make better use of their elderly and give their elderly more satisfying lives than we do in modern, big societies.
We can surely do better by learning from the lives of the elderly in traditional societies.
But what's true of the lives of the elderly in traditional societies is true of many other features of traditional societies as well.
There are many obvious respects in which our lives today are far happier than those in small, traditional societies.
To mention just a few examples, our lives are longer, materially much richer, and less plagued by violence than are the lives of people in traditional societies.
But there are also things to be admired about people in traditional societies, and perhaps to be learned from them.
Those are just some examples of what we can learn from traditional societies.
I hope that you will find it as fascinating to read about traditional societies as I found it to live in those societies.
Mobility in developing world cities is a very peculiar challenge, because different from health or education or housing, it tends to get worse as societies become richer.
So if you're wearing it under pants or a skirt or a sari, it's really obvious that you're wearing a prosthetic limb, and in societies where there's social stigma around being disabled, people are particularly acute about this.
Similarly, negative things in social collectives and societies, things like obesity, and violence, imprisonment, and punishment, are exacerbated as economic inequality increases.
But while the West has opened on sex, what we found is that Arab societies appear to have been moving in the opposite direction.
After all, the absence of a duty of care within many professions can all too easily amount to accusations of negligence, and that being the case, can we be really comfortable with the thought that we're in effect being negligent in respect of the health of our own societies and the values that necessarily underpin them?
These three intertwined processes have completely annihilated all the traditional bearings of Western societies, with radical consequences for the individual.
They not only share things, they demand that things be shared: meat, shelter, protection, all these things that were supposedly being traded to women for their sexual fidelity, it turns out, are shared widely among these societies.
Someone could give a talk and say, look at us, we've got these really sharp teeth and muscles and a brain that's really good at throwing weapons, and if you look at lots of societies around the world, you'll see very high rates of violence.
Those societies also show you that breadwinning and caregiving reinforce each other.
Now, even more interesting is the fact that elephant and hyena societies are entirely matriarchal: they're run by females, groups of females, sisters, aunts and offspring, and when young males attain sexual maturity, they're turfed out of the group.
In hyena societies, adult males are actually the lowest on the social scale.
The sexual strategies and reproductive structures that we see in the animal kingdom basically dictate how males and females will react to each other, which then dictates how populations and societies form and evolve.
What really matters here is the kind of government we want, the kind of Internet we want, the kind of relationship between people and societies.
Beyond that, it's a part of our cultural identity, not just in America, but in Western societies and in democratic societies around the world.
In many patriarchal societies and tribal societies, fathers are usually known by their sons, but I'm one of the few fathers who is known by his daughter, and I am proud of it.
You see, in patriarchal societies, right from the very beginning, when a girl is born, her birth is not celebrated.
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