Ep. 78 NATURAL BRUTALITY w/ Jack Mason (Patreon)

Topic: Robert Bly's Iron John: A Book About Men (1990)Guest: Jack Mason (@lotus__point) of The Perfume NationalistThe wonderful Jack Mason returns to talk about Robert Bly's classic of male consciousness-raising, IRON JOHN, the men's mythopoeic movement of the 90s, the problem of 'naive masculinity', and the importance of solitude (and moving out of your parents' house)LISTEN TO THE PERFUME NATIONALIST"The Wild Man doesn't come to life through being 'natural', going with the flow, smoking weed, reading nothing, and being generally groovy. Ecstasy amounts to living within reach of the high voltage of the golden gifts. The ecstasy comes after thought, after discipline imposed on ourselves, after grief."- Robert Bly