() Love is a
supplement to the boring animal copulation, a rather exciting and kinky idea
that the act of copulation is in accord with the cosmos, it makes us divine. (George
Bataille’s L’anus solaire is
particularly interesting from this point of view.)
() Love is a
kind of technology of the soul, not without esoteric implications, for example
in
Plato. Eventually
the idea of love was finally abducted form dizzy Platonist mystics by
Christianity. Under the trademark of the cross love is distributed worldwide as
an original product of Christian universalism. Precisely as God’s love is
unconditional, Christian love was given without demand and sometimes it was
also imposed against the will. This is the main principle behind the creation
of the demand, by making it indispensible. Or to put it with Lacan: love is to
give what you don’t have – to which Zizek ad: to someone who doesn’t want it. Also
the fact that the product of love – which is not children, but simply love
coming from God (and mysteriously desired by human beings) – is outpoured from
its absolute divine and everlasting source (God) makes love the best product
ever. You have zero costs for the product, which for that matter is produced ex nihilo and ad infinitum.
() In the
course of inventions from the stone axe to the airplane another significant invention
is love. Precisely as the wheel or electricity love contributes to our
conformity and satisfaction. Thus, love is a bound emerging from satisfaction
and conformity in life. Yet the idea of love thus depends on the definition and
the means by which the satisfaction and conformity are achieved. Hence, the
failure to complete these definitions in life results in the lack of love. And
the failure (which is called sin) to live up to the ideal of love becomes the
condition of violence. Without love the human being is stripped down to its survival
instincts.
() Love, as
long its ideal encapsulate the ideology of being possessed and possessing,
which is a relation based on the balance of human instincts such as aggressivity,
may not remain the highest ideal of the good life. As any other ideal even love
can be adjusted or subverted.
() If you do
not have love, what have you?
