"And when there can be no understanding, there can only be surfaces, pretty surfaces, to be dressed up, expensively and profitably, to be 'consumed' by other pretty surfaces; and this is 'love' for the desolated day-tripper--- 'Love at first sight', love without understanding, coherence, or communication, love as best-looking girl, love as maximum-points-conquest-consumption, love as a good enough package to marry.
Because he has been persuaded to feel ashamed of himself, to be dependent on external judgments and authorities, because he has been taught to abandon his capacity for creative, independent thought and coherent understanding, his ability to stand with strength, understanding and independence in love has been crippled and he will tend to fall-not to love-but into dependence on some other person, some 'magic helper' able to solve all the problems he has been made to feel incapable of solving himself. He seeks strength, solutions, coherence, and affirmation in the only place he has ever been told to look for them--outside himself." - David Edwards (Burning All Illusions)
Not that it's relevant, just to keep us thinking.
Friday, July 17, 2009
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