The essential support and encouragement comes from within arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.
Now that I am sixty I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from...
The whole system of society tells you what to do.
The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant and I've seen the fire of the Italian temperament. It can be explosive sometimes in ways that are both funny and tragic.