Joseph‘s Brothers and Robert Bly‘s The Sibling Society

Robert Bly, one of America's great poets and poetry translators, recently died.  In this presentation, I apply Bly's books of social commentary to the end of Genesis.  Iron John described the effects of fathers turning over parenting duties to others --like the wrong-headed "kids learn from interacting with other kids" rather than with parents.  It also argued for the simultaneous absence of initiative rites in American society.  In The Sibling Society, Bly argued that American society represents an adolescent stage of development, not true adulthood.  I apply both books to the entire end of the Book of Genesis.