Love — What Of It? [Essay/Ramble, Unfinished]
Placeholder text while I slowly fill this out
Will be assembled into something coherent sometime soon, split into dated sections.
A series of ramblings on love of all kinds -- though in this page exploring a pessimistic view of it.
Heavy emphasis on human sexuality -- may reclassify into a separate entry when I write enough.
Obviously NOT rigorous; only conjecture based on brief observations.
Very tenuous logic here, but an attempt at thinking nonetheless.
(insert ramblings about dishonesty, regression, counterintuitive nature of the "crush", socialization, etc) Infatuation inspires terror
Because "real" love
as a cowardly distraction from absolute and inevitable regression , disguises itself as more wholesome
making the more platable
The symphonies of horror conducted in endless wars and fanfare throughout human history
the thrumming heart pounds to bursting and boils over into a red froth
Infatutation and Limerence
"Limerence is a state of mind which results from romantic attraction to another person and typically includes obsessive thoughts and fantasies and a desire to form or maintain a relationship with the object of love and have one's feelings reciprocated. Limerence can also be defined as an involuntary state of intense romantic desire.
Infatuation or being smitten is the state of being carried away by an unreasoned passion, usually towards another person for whom one has developed strong romantic or platonic feelings."
--Wikipedia
as a "perversion"(placeholder) of the instinct for actualization
What is love about?
The purpose of love?
Kinds of love (Greek terminology yay wahoo)
fulfillment of love
dysfunctions
Take the story of Pygmalion and Cyprus
The object of the fantasy
subjected to the omnipotence of the imagination simulated interaction
Latent cruelty -- robbing the subject of humanity, eg. dominion
delusions -- distorted sense of reality
defining reality --
( the profound upset that may come when expectations are defied
making the fulfillment of bonding redundant --
antisocial behavior
whether by faith in choices made positively affecting future outcomes, being the "carrot on a stick" to immortalization.
or immediate
Social manipulation -- "game of probabilities"
Some additional thoughts, about politeness:
Passive regulation
social shortcutting and