34: Zev Weinstein - On Parenting, Boys & Generation Z

The Portal

Kast Media

Science, Society & Culture, Education

4.7 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2020

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

This is the first episode of The Portal which was 100% recorded at home, during quarantine, under social isolation. The guest is none other than my own son Zev Weinstein and the recording was timed to straddle his midnight transition from being 14 into being 15 years old.

Zev is currently a 9th grader who occasionally posts to his YouTube Channel GenerationZ (https://www.youtube.com/c/GenerationZW) and his Twitter Account @Zev__Weinstein (https://twitter.com/Zev__Weinstein). In this episode, we sit down to discuss history, poetry, COVID19, jewish humor and other issues, as well as the three questions I am frequently asked about on the topic of parenting:

A) What is the proper approach to parenting a child whose learning differences are significant?

B) Do you have any novel approaches to parenting?

C) What is the best way to parent young boys in a world that cannot find a shared positive vision of masculinity worth celebrating?

Rather than attempt to answer these questions entirely on my own, I thought it would make sense to bring Zev onto The Portal to discuss them with me in his own distinct voice. I hope you will enjoy this episode in the spirit with which it was recorded, and that you will encourage Zev to speak on issues of Generation Z. They are already quite well equipped to discuss how they view the generations above them in handling the world, whose stewardship they will soon inherit.

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0:00.0	Hello, it's Eric with a few thoughts for this week.
0:09.8	I want to talk about a topic that is surprisingly dangerous.
0:13.1	Taste.
0:14.1	Now taste doesn't sound like a dangerous topic, at least in my ears.
0:17.6	When I hear the word, I think about an ineffable quality that famously does not lend itself
0:21.6	to discussion.
0:22.6	As the Latin saying goes, the Gustavus non-S disputundum, indicating a belief that in matters
0:28.0	of taste, unlike matters of fact, there can be no productive disputation.
0:32.6	How marvelous, a quality then that is highly individualistic and cannot be argued because
0:36.9	no one's taste is better than anyone else's.
0:39.6	However, I don't quite see it like that.
0:42.4	Instead, I have a deep feeling of dread that beneath all this mechanistic talk about rights
0:46.6	and rules and laws, there is ultimately an issue of taste at the bottom of it all.
0:51.6	To make matters even worse, I believe that if there is a type of taste essential to making
0:55.8	society work, it is likely not our individual taste, but the coherence of our group taste.
1:02.2	In this picture, we lost a concept of group taste where many members of the leadership
1:06.2	of a social group could roughly agree on what was desirable on behalf of society and act
1:11.4	upon that accordingly.
1:12.9	When that sense of shared group taste was lost, people increasingly turned to rules,
1:17.8	rights, and laws to govern how they should get along in the absence of shared cultural
1:22.0	expectations.
1:23.5	If I hear someone screaming obscenities into a cell phone at a supermarket, for example,
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