Elders

Our species is unique in that we are all more or less made in the image of a very small group of elders. These elders created the essential human values and lifestyles. Elders might include Plato, Socrates, Christ and Jimi Hendrix. Depending on your nature, you seek out the company of certain Elders.

Each of us has had many ancestors that looked and thought like us. Perhaps they succeeded in life, perhaps they perished. The point is that we are an extension of a prototype. Whatever elder captured the imagination of their times and the imaginations of future generations, we are all part and parcel of them. Whatever elder menaced their people into submission and created prolonged suffering, we are part of them.