Sibling Society

The sibling society is the flattening out of the previously democratic society.
Robert Bly

All of those on the left, as I am, have always vastly preferred the democratic society over the hierarchical society and still do, but the democratic culture doesn't exist without highly informed citizens capable of thinking well, and if you have schools in which 40 percent of the people coming out of them cannot make change for a dollar, you don't have a democracy. You have a sibling society.
Robert Bly

In the sibling society, both the adult and the elder get lost, and no one knows where they are.
Robert Bly

I think more and more people are recognizing how much adults and elders are actually needed. That's a gift of the sibling society.
Robert Bly

I use the phrase 'sibling society' to suggest a culture fundamentally without fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, or ancestors. The thinking is horizontal.
Robert Bly