That is kind of a dumb quote. I don't know who said it, so maybe it's lost in translation if it wasn't in English. If you are making excuses to love someone it is time to take a serious look at that relationship. But everyone from parents to lovers have a million reasons to love the people they love. The "reasons" to love someone are just the ways in which they are awesome. If you know why you love someone you should tell them. They'll be proud and happy, you'll lose nothing and the love will still be there.
Might really be lost in translation then. Zizek is smart, and I will always want him there to inhale my enemies, but this seems weirdly reductive for him. Defining exactly what love is is a very different thign than having reasons to love someone.
Capitalism redesigns love to be incomprehensible because its incomprehensibleness allows Capital to thrive. Stuff I've been researching shows that traditional human communities are diametrically oppossed to the accumulation of capital wealth and the destruction of indigenous cultures was always predicated by war and the dismantling of traditional family structures.
Real love is actually quite easy to comprehend once it's defined. If you filter my post history by Posts and not Comments you'll see some of my plagiarism on this topic.
I might do another one soonish with specific examples.
If you define love as having to be incomprehensible that makes some sense. But I don't know how much sense that makes in the first place. Love being incomprehensible does not mean that anything comprehensible isn't love.
That is kind of a dumb quote. I don't know who said it, so maybe it's lost in translation if it wasn't in English. If you are making excuses to love someone it is time to take a serious look at that relationship. But everyone from parents to lovers have a million reasons to love the people they love. The "reasons" to love someone are just the ways in which they are awesome. If you know why you love someone you should tell them. They'll be proud and happy, you'll lose nothing and the love will still be there.
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What? Like how? "I hate when we're apart?" That kind of thing?
Might really be lost in translation then. Zizek is smart, and I will always want him there to inhale my enemies, but this seems weirdly reductive for him. Defining exactly what love is is a very different thign than having reasons to love someone.
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Capitalism redesigns love to be incomprehensible because its incomprehensibleness allows Capital to thrive. Stuff I've been researching shows that traditional human communities are diametrically oppossed to the accumulation of capital wealth and the destruction of indigenous cultures was always predicated by war and the dismantling of traditional family structures.
Real love is actually quite easy to comprehend once it's defined. If you filter my post history by Posts and not Comments you'll see some of my plagiarism on this topic.
I might do another one soonish with specific examples.
If you define love as having to be incomprehensible that makes some sense. But I don't know how much sense that makes in the first place. Love being incomprehensible does not mean that anything comprehensible isn't love.
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