The wisest man I know happens to be my uncle. He rarely volunteers advice. Instead, I have to pry it out of him, or learn from his example.

I wonder, are wise men uncles rather than dads because they were too smart to have kids?

There’s more

  child -> uncle 

…relations than

  child -> father

…relations.

Plus, what you said. Might be something in that.

Definitely, I got the same vibe reading this as I do with Economist articles where you can tell the unnamed author waxing poetic inefficiencies in state allocation of capital just graduated 2 years ago.