Nov 03, 2002 22:39
Addendum:
When I posted my rant about love I so wanted to put a disclaimer, but didn’t. Now it just seems easier to put this here as a post then type the same thing it to each of my valued comenters.
I know love zero zero reads as something of a bitter anti-love post, I know it makes it seem as if I devalue the emotion or think we would be better off without it, but that’s not how I meant it. If anything I think that love - or our emotional compassionate side will be the thing that stops us splitting the mudball in two if anything can. What I was trying to say (to myself if no one else) was that I think that we are caught in something of an emotional bind by our historical expectations of love and romance - and that they are reinforced and sold back to us by an unimaginative and manipulative media. I really think that some sort of major change is needed before we can come to terms with what it is to feel in the 21st C.
I may not be the biggest romantic in the world, but I do recognise it’s importance.