Theses on Love

() 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?