Richard’s Reviews > Iron John: A Book About Men > Status Update

And now we have a dose of nature fetishization. Nature is beautiful and spiritual and is also where humans die in droves and not because they have forgotten how to live in communion, but because communion is not nature's way.

"Victor Turner, the anthropologist, has recovered in recent decades the almost forgotten concept of ritual space."

Really? He "recovered" the "almost forgotten" concept? Bly wrote this book in 1990. Last I checked, churches were still a thing at that point.

"It is odd how few strong swords the taxpayers bring forward against these outrages, or against the savings and loan greediness, or against the presidential campaigners’ refusal to debate the issues." Gee, so glad we got past those problems...right?

This is not to say that Robert Bly himself did this, but it is amazing to me how we have pushed men to be providers to the point of being non-entities in their own homes and then put on shocked pikachu face when that has knock-on effects.