A World Of Half Adults Bly Analysis

People naturally wish to share a connection with others; the problem is maturity, or lack thereof. Maturity is on the lower spectrum of society’s priorities. Immature individuals have fallen victim to the “Sibling Society”, so says Robert Bly in “A World of Half-Adults”. The half-adults are oblivious, and seem to forget that there are wonderers out in this world, seeking meaningful companionship, seeking individuals who are intellectual, who thrive in conversations with an impeccable passion in their choice of words. Nowadays there are less and less true adults. This is a terrifying observation because one now believes that maturity is a thing of the past, and no longer exists. Throughout this piece Bly attempts to open an emerging issue up for discussion, this being a lack of …show more content…
Those that have made it to the “…the zero parent family” (Bly 60) do not stand a chance in the waging battle that exists between those who have, and those who do not have “What the young need--- stability, presence, attention, advice, good psychic food, unpolluted stories…” (Bly 61). These abandoned children may be the ones to blame for everyone, including the parented, falling behind. Bly goes on to say that due to inadequate economic resolutions, “…we have to wonder whether there might not be a genuine anger against children in the sibling society.” (Bly 61). Is this true? With the realization, that not only are the mature disappointed with those who are to blame for grade-school teachers having to “…repeat instructions over and over, or look each child in the face and give instructions separately”, but are also angry at those who are mentally stunted as they step foot into a classroom, one should just assume that there is no hope. The immature then grow aware of this and attempt to imitate adults. Both sides see the breach, and no one can, no matter how hard they try, can seem to patch