The Society that Fears Love

These last two years on the road has made me aware of a terrifying observation.

We live in a society that fears love. I have given a slight example of my

observations and experiences with love. Reading much of Mozi a Chinese

Philosopher during the Hundred Schools of Thought Period, has led me to some

interesting findings as well as reflecting on forgotten memories of my own personal

history. I have never agreed with much of my Father's side of the family. Their

conservative nature is in deep contrast to my own ideology. But I have always found

one deep and powerful anecdote that rings of great truth that they habitually repeat.

"Love is Sacrifice". There is so much truth into this simple explanation for what so

many consider such a broad concept.


With this obscure sense of subjectivity we see a universal disconnect. There in lies

the paradox of choice in an option driven society. We categorize love like we do to

so many other mundane and trivial things. A categorizing or labeling of love is the

same as an expectation or condition. Mozi suggests that love is universal, "that

people in principle should care for all people equally". Our modern paradigm directly

conflicts with this philosophy. We embrace the individual at the expense of the

community. It is our own ego that perpetuates this twisted ideology. We above all

else have demand for what we desire. Our own selfish desires drown out true vision

& clarity. Our own selfish attachments that keep us from overlooking the faults of

others and naively puts us above others. It puts image over substance. It puts a

demand for a constant penchant for self stimulation, manipulation and deception. It

is this Cult of Self that keeps us from understanding and experiencing love. We are

consumed with the idea of "ME!" Yet this selfish ideology only keeps us in a state

of none growth and bias. We as a society are emotionally, psychologically and

intellectually unprepared for love.


We fear love because we do not know what love is, because we have made love so

broad a term that the gap that it has created can never be filled.