Illusion of the Youth

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[chicogon]

Wrong sense of entitlement you mean?

[islander]

been there, done that, hehe.  one needs more years to understand one's own insignificance, so to speak.

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the young miley cyrus complains:

...unnamed senior corporate types are "out of touch" with the desires of today's youth. "With magazines, with movies, it's always weird when things are targeted for young people, yet they're driven by people that are, like, 40 years too old."

She went on, "It can't be like this 70-year-old Jewish man that doesn't leave his desk all day, telling me what the clubs want to hear."

[islander]

the advice of old jewish men to the young miley cyrus:


"Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself."

Rabbi David Wolpe, Sinai Temple in Los Angeles (quoting the late Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel)

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"You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half."

Rabbi David Wolpe, Sinai Temple in Los Angeles (quoting the non-rabbi Saul Bellow)

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"To believe in God means to take for granted that it is man's destiny to rise above the brute and to eliminate all forms of violence and exploitation from human society."

Erica Brown, a widely respected Torah teacher in Washington (quoting the founder of Reconstructionist Judaism, Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan)

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"Thought is a strenuous art -- few practice it, and then only at rare times." 

Erica Brown, a widely respected Torah teacher in Washington (quoting David Ben-Gurion)

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"Three things shorten a person's days and years: Being given a Torah scroll to read and refusing to read it, being given a cup of blessing to say grace and refusing to say it, and taking on airs of authority."

Rabbi Andy Bachman, of Congregation Beth Elohim in New York (quoting Judah HaNasi)

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"If young people say to you, 'Build the Temple,' do not heed them. But if elders say to you, 'Destroy the Temple,' heed them. For building done by young people may be equivalent to destruction, while the destruction done by old people is equivalent to building."

Rabbi Andy Bachman, of Congregation Beth Elohim in New York (quoting Simeon ben Eliazer)

Bachman went on to explain by e-mail the meaning embedded in this quote. "Miley might do well to look at the landscape of hubris-infused rock stars who tumble into self-destruction, usually out of a misunderstood sense of their own power and popularity (dangerous addictions in their own right that only get worse when drugs and alcohol get mixed in)." - author Jeffrey Goldberg

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author goldberg continues:

I would offer Cyrus three more thoughts, from old Jews who have succeeded in her industry.

From Leonard Cohen:

"The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show."

Cohen also made this wise statement:

"When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you."

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Bob Dylan, in "Love Minus Zero, No Limit," sang,

"In the dime stores and bus stations/ People talk of situations/ Read books, repeat quotations/ Draw conclusions on the wall/ Some speak of the future/ My love she speaks softly/ She knows there's no success like failure/ And that failure's no success at all."

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Finally, apropos of the licentious misuse of bears*, this, from Paul Simon:

"Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo. I do believe it, I do believe it's true."


*(among other things, she mimicked masturbation with an oversized foam finger, twerked, and, unforgivably, sexualized teddy bears) - jeffrey goldberg

-excerpts from http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-17/old-jewish-men-have-valuable-advice-for-miley-cyrus.html?cmpid=taboola.articles