All I can see is how disgusting we are ,humans, we will never be happy for each other
We will never love each
There’s no love
We just like to convince ourselves that we are good and we love each other in order to get what we need from others without admitting that we are actually using them
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Deception is the key social lubricant, and love in the modern sense is a pretty revolutionary concept… well, it was before society figured out how to market it, profit from it and so on.
Everything starts out revolutionary.
Anyway, there is a head rush that I call lust, that’s real. There’s an affection I have for others, I call it love, but it’s still cynical. Every relationship ends with someone leaving or dying. Every single one since the beginning of time. The modern thing is being really angry about it, like it’s preventable. Or we act like it’s preventable. But that person is going to die, and they might leave before then. The options are to avoid people out of fear of their leaving, or be around them despite it.
It’s a lot like adopting a puppy. The puppy is going to poop on the rug, pee itself, and then eventually probably before you do it’s going to die. But they bring some comfort into our lives, and we feel affection for them. I think the difference is that people have higher expectations out of humans, though I see no reason to. Dogs are bred to be useful. Humans reproduce with no definite end goal. That humans are useful at all, kind at all is a complete fluke and to be celebrated.
The people who know the least about what love is are the ones who suffer the most, because they dont know how to love themselves.
All to often, far too often, what you said is true of certain individuals. Maybe even most, I suspect. This is just another reason I say we probably should shy away from reproducing. If we ourselves can’t love, but we still seek out a relationship, we should only use those who can at least give consent to a relationship with us.
As was pointed out above, deception is the key social lubricant. I would say this is true far too often.
people really need to stop throwing around the word ‘love’ like candy, the word might as well have no meaning knowing how much it gets thrown around.
Anyway using other people is so rife and so common, its wrong but people keep doing it .