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I seem to recall you mentioning that you are a youth mentor.
Some' observes, "Westerners see adolescents as fundamentally naive about life. By contrast, the tribal mentor sees a youth as someone who already contains knowledge that he or she needs, but who must work with an older, more experienced person to 'remember' what they know. A mentor therefore is not a teacher in the strict sense of the term, but a guide who shows the way, working from a position of res- pect and affinity, addressing the knowledge within the young person. The pupil is not an ignorant person in the eye of his or her mentor. The pupil is seen as a storehouse, a repository of something the mentor is quite familiar with and very interested in, something the mentor himself has and knows very well. The mentor perceives a presence knocking at a door within the pupil, and accepts the task of finding, or becoming, the key that opens the door. There develops a relationship of trust between mentor and pupil, motivated by love, and without success would be unlikely."
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The Rand (Paul or Ayn) philosophy, putting private property rights at the same level of human rights, equates the status of things with the status of human beings. If property is considered equal
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