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Robert Bly On Mythology and Masculinity, What It Means To Be Male
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This is a video of Robert Bly explaining some things about the mythopoetic mens movement, a movement to discover the meaning of manhood in mythology.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bly

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythopoetic_men%27s_movement


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From the wikipedia article

"A lot of Bly's writings focus on what he saw as the troubled situation of men in modern culture. He claimed that whereas women have their body to help them through the stages of maturity, men are an "experimental species" of nature and have to be taught on what it is to be a man. Older cultures had elaborate rights of passage and myths to help them along the path as well the concept of men's societies where older men could teach young boys on these gender specific meaning. These myths where as important to men as instincts are to animals which he very eloquently put in the beginning chapter of his book Iron John[4]. As men became increasingly absent from the house during and after the industrial revolution, young males did not receive the teachings that they used to. As a result "there is a lot of pain and grief around men these days"[5] as this absence of proper teaching explains, according to Bly, many of the phenomenon of depression, juvenile delinquency and lack of leadership in business and politics.
Bly therefore sees today's men as half adults, trapped somewhere between childhood and maturity, a state in which they find it hard to become responsible leaders, carers and fathers, which in turn leads to the passing down of that immaturity through the generations.
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The solution to this problem is the rediscovery of the meanings hidden in traditional myths that have hopefully been passed down to us but are in danger of being forgotten. "


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Not too sure he knows what he's talking about.  Primitive cultures were generally violent and warlike.  If that's a big part of what being a man is and I believe it is, then I really don't care that much.


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" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
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In the second video of the series which can be found on youtube Michael Meade says this: "there is an epidemic of heart attacks among men... but that can be turned around, there is an attack on mens hearts... and this attack on mens hearts is the feeling of isolation men have, and it is this emotional isolation which is causing the heart attacks".


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I agree with this theory.  Men in this culture and many others are so fear driven that it's pretty sad. Macho is everything.


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"Don't believe everything you think". -Anom.

" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC

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