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HOLLYWOOD KILLED the MENTOR Archetype... And It’s RUINING Stories.
Snarky Jay | 1 Aug. 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uFzivpfrBY
Generation proportions or age pyramid.
US 2025 vs US 1977, "mentor age":
| 100 +, | 0.0 / 0.0 % | vs | 0.0 / 0.0 % | |||
| 96 99, | 0.0 / 0.1 % | vs | 0.0 / 0.0 % | |||
| 90 94, | 0.2 / 0.4 % | vs | 0.1 / 0.1 % | |||
| 85 89, | 0.5 / 0.7 % | vs | 0.2 / 0.4 % | |||
| 80 84, | 1.0 / 1.3 % | vs | 0.4 / 0.8 % | |||
| 75 79, | 1.7 / 2.0 % | vs | 0.8 / 1.2 % | |||
| 70 74, | 2.2 / 2.5 % | vs | 1.2 / 1.6 % | |||
| 65 69, | 2.8 / 3.0 % | vs | 1.6 / 2.0 % | |||
| 60 64, | 3.1 / 3.1 % | vs | 2.0 / 2.3 % |
One section of the "mentoree age":
| 20 24 | 3.4 / 3.2 % | vs | 4.6 / 4.7 % |
Case in point. I'm 56, soon 57. I'm a writer and would love an editor. Sorry, publishing house, in French that's "éditeur" ...
Some of the crooks who infiltrate my online readership think of me as a mentoree.
I just got a mail from a certain person on the site Story Grid who told me, it would be wiser as to writing, first to practise, then to perform.
He is definitely mostly into novel writing, and I'm an essay writer.
He thinks my claim to being a writer lies in a mostly abandoned novel project and that all the essays I produce are just a distraction.
And he is so confident that my lack of success must come from lack of practise. First the equation of writing with performing music is pretty atrocious. Second, there is a reason why certain guys hate my stuff, and it's not stylistic. It's a high disagreement degree on what content I should produce.
Yes, you heard me right. Some people are so much at a loss for finding mentorees age 20 to 24 that they go to someone more like 55 to 60 (nearly going on mentor age) ... who has practised writing, while writing, for the time since 2001.
Or, some people hate my message, and they find their claim to offering their services as a mentor credible. Other possible cause for lack of success, I'm being painted as a mentor in search for mentorees, which obviously alienates the age in which I could win converts (without necessarily being much of a mentor).
