Robert Bly Interview | Warrior Films | Rites of Passage
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Goodbye dear friend, inspiration and trail blazer! Robert Bly, Dec. 23, 1926 - Nov. 22, 2021
I just came across this video again, and am once again touched by the intimacy and humility on display. Thank you for sharing this beautiful conversation with Robert.
I have always been impressed by Bly for being a voice that went beyond partisan politics, and yet he was a very smart social critic. Ultimately he attracted people from across the political spectrum and still does because he speaks in a language that is transcendent of politics.
That said he is actually a very old school practically 19th century leftist in his thinking. I deeply appreciate that he will just come out and criticize the negative effects of capitalism like television advertising or that Reagan is an uninitiated president, and his belief that a country as deeply capitalist as this one is now incapable of providing an initiated president and its getting worse etc.
I don’t like a lot of the ungrounded leftism of the USA, But Bly criticized that too.
But I am sometimes astounded by the capitalist apologetics of some in the men’s movement, or Jordan Peterson, or conservative Christians when the dominant type of capitalism we have is very destructive especially things like selfish Ayn Randism which preaches greed and lack of concern for others and community.
I'm afraid too few people see him this way. The sibling society was an underrated work.
Will there ever be a time that the work and message of initiation won't be undervalued and understated? His message reached a fever-pitch in a lost, post-Vietnam America, and yet, I'll be damned if it's not even more urgent now than it was then. I wish I could've met him and gone to one of his gatherings of men. What an experience that must've been.
That spirit of those gatherings still lives on in other gatherings of men. There are groups all over the country still gathering, including MKP of course. But if you're in LA check out MCLA - Men's Community of LA.
Bly was a Harvard classmate of my father, also a poet. He and Donald Hall, and my father were very competitive with one another.. Maybe some folks might believe they would be less so, but it's not the case. They were class of 1951, the year I was born. Both became family friends and Bly visited my family in Tennessee, my homestead and where I am today. We went out to my family farm, in a beautiful pasture where he wrote a poem. Always admired his poetry "Merchants have multiplied more than the stars of heaven" . . .and his translation of Rilke, Neruda, Thomas Transtomer, and many others. He had a great sense of humor, not all poets do. But I do think his devotion to the works of Carl Jung went too far. He loved Harvard, sent his daughter there.
Iron John is a must read book. Anyone who finds themself reading it is very lucky, essential information that most people will never run into.
I had the pleasure of meeting his daughter and we had a brief but lovely conversation about her father’s work.
I'd love to meet her myself.
Nice interview thanks. the authors were Will and Ariel (?) Durant (12 volume history). . Love this guy and his transcendentalism, could listen to him all day. I need to read more of his work. Happy to see his just published Collected Poems (2018), it is here on the shelves at this Jesuit (Gtwn) univ library, great to see it there prominently, young men could use to discover Mr. Bly.
When was this recorded?
2005? 2006? Can't remember offhand, but it's been quite a while...