Robert Bly’s essay expressed his anger towards the younger generations which he believes are negatively affecting society. Before writing A World of Half-Adults, Bly focused on writing about gender and how the roles are changing in society. He believes that there are two different types of society, paternalistic and sibling societies. The Paternalistic society was viewed as the preferred generation, where there was structure and self sacrifice was encouraged. This society was more prevalent up until the late 1980’s. The sibling society is considered to be from the 1990’s up until now. Sibling society is classified as the half-adults, where there is no respect for the older generations, and laziness is a common trait. Bly’s tone throughout the essay strongly expresses how he feels, making it clear that he believes something needs to change.
There are various reasons as to why Bly believes that the sibling society has formed into the way that it has. Among many of the reasons is his belief that there are no …show more content…
Fifty years ago technology was undeveloped and not a large part of people’s lives like it is today. Now you find children in front of a television for an excessive amount of time, which is affecting them in multiple ways. While such a large amount of time is spent in front of the television, it is causing them to become passive and have a difficult time comprehending things. Bly states another effect of the television, “Television provides an garbage dump of obsessive sexual material inappropriate to the child’s age, minute descriptions of brutalities, wars, and tortures all over the world: an avalanche of specialized information that stunts the brain” (22). Adolescents have dismissed their culture to only concern themselves with what is in the media. With no concern for learning new things, culture is slowly diminishing along with
There are various reasons as to why Bly believes that the sibling society has formed into the way that it has. Among many of the reasons is his belief that there are no …show more content…
Fifty years ago technology was undeveloped and not a large part of people’s lives like it is today. Now you find children in front of a television for an excessive amount of time, which is affecting them in multiple ways. While such a large amount of time is spent in front of the television, it is causing them to become passive and have a difficult time comprehending things. Bly states another effect of the television, “Television provides an garbage dump of obsessive sexual material inappropriate to the child’s age, minute descriptions of brutalities, wars, and tortures all over the world: an avalanche of specialized information that stunts the brain” (22). Adolescents have dismissed their culture to only concern themselves with what is in the media. With no concern for learning new things, culture is slowly diminishing along with