Radio Mano, Papa Tzango

school

Hey everybody, this is what I mean when I say this is a special episode.

These are two of my favorite people in the world and I'm really happy to bring

them to you. One of whom you've met before, Michael Dan, the other you've never

heard from my aunt, Dott, two people who have been incredibly important in my

life just sort of showing me how to be an adult, you know, and I don't mean to

take anything away from my parents obviously when I say that. But I think that

it's really important for kids to have more than one or two role models in

life. No matter how great ones parents are or if you're a parent no matter how

great you are, I think it's really important for kids to have a range of adults

in their lives that they can look up to and learn from and you know sort of

triangulate between because no matter how well intentioned we are we can only

show what we know and nobody knows everything and nobody has taken every path

and considered every option. So I think it's really interesting. I've thought a lot

about this and written a lot about this in both sex, it on and civilized to

death how our kind of restricted view of love, the scarcity-based view of love

that is expressed in sort of fearful monogamy, not all monogamy. I'm making that

distinction intentionally, fearful monogamy. Monogamy where you grip someone

very tightly because you're afraid that if they leave you there will be no one

else, there will be no other love, there will be no other source of intimacy

and companionship and a warm body to line next to it night, someone to take

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