Although what you are about to read is not actually an analysis of the Three Witches of Shakespeare’s MacBeth, the general meaning of a part of their famous incantation “Double double, toil and trouble” is just as it sounds: the intent to cause toils and troubles for humankind for the sake of causing them. Perhaps …
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We can see from the historical record that men are physically, intellectually, and morally critical to effective resistance to totalitarianism. I believe that I have missed the significance of this for years. I have been studying the mechanisms by which men and boys are subjected to injustice and neglect. I have been concerned on human …
A few years ago I was watching a European gangster film (can’t remember the name of it). The film contained the standard array of beatings, shootings, and other mayhem – all that plus subtitles! The audience sat unmoved for about two hours of this bludgeoning, bloodletting and body-stacking. Then towards the end of the movie, …
Although what you are about to read is not actually an analysis of the Three Witches of Shakespeare’s MacBeth, the general meaning of a part of their famous incantation “Double double, toil and trouble” is just as it sounds: the intent to cause toils and troubles for humankind for the sake of causing them. Perhaps …
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Hope in heaven, feet on the ground. – English Gentleman’s motto, from the 17th century. In the West, traditional masculinity is under attack. Many of the virtues that come under its code of conduct were, at one time, promoted as aspirational virtues for boys, taught and supported by both parents in a household. Increasingly, however, …
