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A Reader posted a review at 2007-09-03 01:18:14.
(Language: English)
  
Really fascinating look at how children in the family unit are beginning to command the family as a whole. Disturbing book, because it predicts how economics has altered financial allocation in the home and subsequently how the concept of respect has changed within the family. It concludes by telling us that the first world is spawning entire generations of children who not only command the majority of the family income but also their parents. Scary, frightening, perverse. Tell your parents to make your younger teenage sister return the Wii immediately and go out to work and earn the money for it :)
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-08-28 06:55:54.
(Language: English)
In true Bly style; this book is both enlightening and enjoyable to read. It sparks the imagingtion as it adresses the problems with western life today.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-10-16 07:59:44.
(Language: English)
interesting and truthful, but at the same time head-scratching in some of its logic. i do see myself and a lot of people i know in this "sibling society," but there isn't a lot of talk about how to fix it (although some). but it's mostly just about how we got here and how screwed over we all are; spiritually, emotionally, etc. even then, one man can't pinpoint any and everything that got us all here, so it's not best to take word for word. the final message is to continue to have a mother-father family with lots and lots of focus on the kids, but ultimately... isn't that obvious? obviously not for most. if anything, this only reinforced how i felt about being a father and when/if i have kids of my own. that's not ALL i took out of this, there's more to it than that, but it's probably the most important bit to me.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-05-14 11:57:48.
(Language: English)
Robert Bly (1996): "The Sibling Society: An Impassioned Call for the Rediscovery of Adulthood" As we will recall, the Minbari sent the exceedingly learned poet Lennier to become the main assistant to their embassador, in their attempts at understanding and collaborating with our people. As history proved this was a clever and fruitful strategy -- we sometimes need the trained eyes of a writer or poet or composer to see what goes on in the world, as we slightly more often than we admit fall prey to snowblindedness when seeing too much white. And this wise, thoughtful, provocative book proves this anew -- Bly the poet and the writer and the seer shows us what we're really up to, in the modern Western societies, when we abandon too much of adulthood and respect for age, in favour of too easy-going youth-consumption-oriented styles of life. I wish upon adults and the youngsters and the elderly to read, discuss (and on occasion disagree), and benefit from the insights in this book. In my own society we might have been through several stages and paradigm shifts, over the past generation or so, perhaps without this being visible at the time. Three `evolutionary sociological events' that come to mind are (i) the trend towards making nearly all radio and television programmes fine-tune themselves for the Young, as opposed to for those who have lived for a while; (ii) when all Norwegians went from "De" to "du" in the course of a five-year transition period; and (iii) when rather suddenly and rapidly everyone in society, including senior journalists and politicians, went from "Willoch" and "Harlem Brundtland" to "KÃ¥re" and "Gro". Of course neither of these transitions are inherently horrible per se, and they clearly spin off beneficial socio-democratic consequences and side effects, but they are indicative of something deep that is going on and that is in the "rather more serious than we care to admit" category -- and they appear to be almost irreversible. I very much admire the two Bly books I have read, this one and the more famous "Iron John". He writes lucidly and thoughtprovokingly, yet with full respect for his readers, and I have no trouble keeping my natural respect for him and his lectures even when I occasionally happen to disagree. Here and there I see him reading even more darkness into a dark picture than what this picture might deserve, but I consider that fair game given Bly's assignment, which is to convery his messages as powerfully as he can. The five Hjort siblings agree: Read "The Sibling Society".
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-07-24 08:02:39.
(Language: English)
This book, though flawed in its logic, opend my eyes to the world of cultural criticism and analysis--perhaps it single-handedly made me interested in loving literary criticism.
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-09-05 04:59:08.
(Language: English)
Yes Robert Bly is long winded but the point of the book and the author is to connect with what we have lost. As a sibling society focussed on remaining immature in attitude, we want our own way --- Bly asks the reader to consider the consequences of the sibling society and what a return to a more mature society might look like. Thoroughly enthralling book .... an author who presents an case and does not cram it down your throat .... Bly has you walking away from reading it saying, " The myths and stories of the past do fit .... things now can be clearer in the real world if we step in the world of myth and fairy tale." Yes the rulers of the current society roost are the children in the families .... we have all bought into this, the profession of social work and counselling regretably so ... the very people who could help the family get on even keel are buying into a "fariy tale" with "no consequences" ... Bly points out that the original fairy tales have giants who ate people and did very nasty things .... why were these elements included? Becuase there were lessons for the society that fully understood them .... Regretably we all want to remain children with no rules, no borders, no boundaries, with no care for others or society as a whole ..... just "What is in this for me?" is the focus .... The whirlwind has arrived .... kids telling their parents where to go and how to get there, extravagant demands by teens made because some celebrity has what they want, ... school shootings, school boards who defend miscreant students instead of supporting teachers .... Having come from the generation where yardsticks were used on students' hands, I understand the backlash against that harsh discipline ... but we have swung the pendulum too far the other way ...... let us bring back some balance ... creativity without discipline is CHAOS ..... or shall we just enjoy / endure the Chaos? Our decision to make ...
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-12-04 09:33:53.
(Language: English)
A very important book
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Brian posted a review at 2011-12-11 03:31:36.
(Language: English)
The premise of this book is fine - that absent father figures specifically and poor parenting in general is having an increasingly negative impact on the development of a whole generation of children. But it uses pseudoscience to support the ideas, often boring irrelevant poems and myths to seek deeper meaning that really isn't there. The book is a dud.
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-10-05 12:46:00.
(Language: English)
Robert Bly (1996): "The Sibling Society: An Impassioned Call for the Rediscovery of Adulthood" As we will recall, the Minbari sent the exceedingly learned poet Lennier to become the main assistant to their embassador, in their attempts at understanding and collaborating with our people. As history proved this was a clever and fruitful strategy -- we sometimes need the trained eyes of a writer or poet or composer to see what goes on in the world, as we slightly more often than we admit fall prey to snowblindness when seeing too much white. And this wise, thoughtful, provocative book proves this anew -- Bly the poet and the writer and the seer shows us what we're really up to, in the modern Western societies, when we abandon too much of adulthood and respect for age, in favour of too easy-going youth-consumption-oriented styles of life. I wish upon adults and the youngsters and the elderly to read, discuss (and on occasion disagree), and benefit from the insights in this book. In my own society we might have been through several stages and paradigm shifts, over the past generation or so, perhaps without this being visible at the time. Three `evolutionary sociological events' that come to mind are (i) the trend towards making nearly all radio and television programmes fine-tune themselves for the Young, as opposed to for those who have lived for a while; (ii) when all Norwegians went from "De" to "du" in the course of a five-year transition period; and (iii) when rather suddenly and rapidly everyone in society, including senior journalists and politicians, went from "Willoch" and "Harlem Brundtland" to "KÃ¥re" and "Gro". Of course neither of these transitions are inherently horrible per se, and they clearly spin off beneficial socio-democratic consequences and side effects, but they are indicative of something deep that is going on and that is in the "rather more serious than we care to admit" category -- and they appear to be almost irreversible. I very much admire the two Bly books I have read, this one and the more famous "Iron John". He writes lucidly and thoughtprovokingly, yet with the full respect for his readers, and I have no trouble keeping my natural respect for him and his lectures even when I occasionally happen to disagree. Here and there I see him reading even more darkness into a dark picture than what this picture might deserve, but I consider that fair game given Bly's assignment, which is to convery his messages as powerfully as he can. The five Hjort siblings agree: Read "The Sibling Society".
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