The danger of losing the valuable cognitive "deposits" from Humans

It may be the slowing down of our pragmatic evolution.

My dear mentor, Dr. Russ Watson, introduced me to this subject in 2017. Of course, I was aware of what happens with the knowledge, experiences, and stories within the humans' brains: they transform into wisdohm that needs to be passed on to the next generations. 

Every culture has this type of "passing on wisdom" embedded in its traditions, but we're on the verge of losing that while the bridges between generations break, are diluted, or, even worse, are poisoned.

I'm afraid that's not right, and I don't think people understand the importance of this phenomenon. We will lose a lot as humanity if the mechanisms of transferring Wisdom from elders to younger adults do not happen anymore.

The problem

Conceptually, the problem is that we do not see Wisdom as we see electricity. A force that drives habitual energy. We don't see its vital importance to human evolution and sanity. We ignore the Wisdom bearers. We ignore elders. We've designed our society to retire them into uselessness. We accept the fact we lose Wisdom in the void of ignorance. We ignore the rules of evolution. 

The solution

Today we're mesmerized by what Chat GPT can do in a digital dialogue of finding "things" out. We praise the AI power of mentoring, of giving the correct answers when we all had this all along at our fingertips. 

Do you have a question? Ask an elder, as someone that had been there, done that. Yes, maybe we lack a digital interface for this interaction, but it's there.

Wisdom doesn't need to be rediscovered by an AI; it's within our elders.

Can we listen?