As indecisive Artists replace Heroes in midlife, they apply expertise and process to improve society while calming the passions of the young. Caught in a generational whipsaw, torn between the inner mission of younger Prophets and the outer mission of older Heroes, Artist generations carve out a mediator’s role. They mentor new youth movements while sensitizing and pluralizing their elders’ constructions. As they patch together a midlife pastiche out of fragments of the Hero and Prophet personas, they compensate for their earlier conformism by engaging in high-risk institutional and family
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