Ha. Okay, so I wasn't the very, very first. But I was here soon enough to nab God, Goddess, and fuck. You know, the triad core of cosmic being.
According to Bly, our age is an age that spawns societal flatness... "People don't bother to grow up, and we are all fish swimming in a tank of half-adults." [p. vii] This is the "sibling society," a herd defining itself as exempt from responsibilities to assume and long-term commitments to undertake.
Bly laments the self-annihilation engendered in this society , "... with its fatherlessness, its openness to junk culture, its encouragement of early and shallow sexuality, its destruction of courtesy, and its economic uncertainty ...." [p. 115]
The fundamental energy of the Sibling Society is to enforce leveling. Our submission has proceeded so long and so far that we are now "... standing in the rubble of a destroyed literate society, looking at the ruins of education, family, and child protection. Technology has destroyed interrelations in the human community that have taken centuries to develop. The breaking of human beings' connection to land has harmed everyone. We are drowning in uncontrollable floods of information. We are living among dispirited and agonized teenagers who can't find any hope. Genuine work is disappearing, and we are becoming aware of a persistent infantilizing of men and women, a process already far advanced." [pp. 169-70]
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