Jubal and Tubal

Read this poem,https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_jubal.htmFrom the first lines, you can catch its entire vibe. There are men of song, and men of action. Talkers vs doers. There is Jubal who sings, sings, and sings about stuff, no end. And a real doer, Tubal who is delivering, performing. With an implicit - and yet very clear - message of total Tubal’s superiority over his brother.That is a very common, and an almost universal sentiment in our cultureWhy?Because it is being spread by JubalsIndeed, I cannot but see a certain irony in all of thatBecause all of that, the entire narrative of Tubal’s superiority is nothing more than… yet another song of Jubal. (For who is Kipling himself? A Jubal, of course)And, like all of Jubal’s songs, like everything Jubal is singing about it is… well, sort of untrue. A sentimental, romantic myth propagated by Jubals themselves, and mostly selected for its mimetic fitness rather than for it match with reality.A myth of a real, authentic (and…