(I probably share this fault)
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Replying to @Meaningness @turrible_tao
He's a center-right version of therapy culture directed mostly at boys and young men. That's only outrageous because it's mildly tabooed to show boys any understanding in the wider culture at the moment.
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Replying to @St_Rev @turrible_tao
OK, yeah, that seems to be what his audience has recently made him. Based on reading his earlier stuff, seems to be a bit of an accident, wandering off his previous agenda. But I have nothing against this for opportunism.
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And, yeah, a center-right version of therapy culture directed mostly at boys and young men is a fine thing IMO and much needed at the moment.
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I’m planning to write REAL SOON NOW about Robert Bly’s failed attempt to do the same “man up!” thing from the center left, 25 years ago. I was peripherally involved in that at the time.
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This would be the next installment in my shadow-eating series (based so far on Bly’s book on that). His _Iron John_ was a valiant attempt to deal with shadow stuff around masculinity, and showed considerable promise, but failed for various reasons I don’t totally understand yet.
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Replying to @Meaningness @St_Rev
I read the one abt eating the shadow I think you mentioned
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Replying to @Meaningness @St_Rev
hmm it was something very similar to the type of thinking I have gotten from reading certain astrology books believe it or not
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I would say it is the exact same metaphysical framework regarding a certain kind of thinking i cant explain good
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He draws heavily on Jung, who runs strongly toward Romantic-Idealist monism, which is historical progenitor of most contemporary woo
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So I think you are right that there’s a significantly similar flavor there
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I explained my reservations about Bly’s use of Jung, and Jung’s use of Romanticism, here:https://buddhism-for-vampires.com/romancing-the-shadow …
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