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"People don't bother to grow up, and we are all fish swimming in a tank of half-adults." [p. vii] Those who are physically fullgrown wind up joining what Bly calls a "sibling [[society]]," a company of agemates or peers in which there are no responsibilities to assume and no longterm commitments to undertake. Bly sounds an eloquent lament about this society, "... with its fatherlessness, its openness to junk culture, its encouragement of early and shallow sexuality, its destruction of courtesy, and its [[economic]] uncertainty ...." <ref>http://www.calvin.edu/academic/philosophy/virtual_library/articles/plantinga_ted/all_men_are_brothers_a_chilling_prospect.pdf</ref>

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'''Robert Bly''' (b. Dec. 23, 1926)is an American poet and [[activist]]. Many of his works takes an anti-feminist tone, while lamenting the "fatherlessness" of today's society.

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*[http://www.calvin.edu/academic/philosophy/virtual_library/articles/plantinga_ted/all_men_are_brothers_a_chilling_prospect.pdf All Men Are Brothers: A Chilling Prospect] - by Theodore Plantinga

*[http://www.calvin.edu/academic/philosophy/virtual_library/articles/plantinga_ted/all_men_are_brothers_a_chilling_prospect.pdf All Men Are Brothers: A Chilling Prospect] - by Theodore Plantinga

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