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>one's nation, one's profession, even God Those are cases of institutions hijacking the mechanism of love.
by hoseja 5y ago
>one's nation, one's profession, even God
Those are cases of institutions hijacking the mechanism of love.
- bencollier49 5y agoIf someone wanted to bulldoze your home town to build a nuclear reactor, you'd be upset, right? That said, there are different sorts of love. The Greeks had many words for it. We're impoverished in that regard.
- blowski 5y agoIf such institutions have successfully hijacked love pretty much universally for much of human history, then it's worth saying they're connected.
- hoseja 5y agoDepends on what you consider history. Written history? Sure, writing is the DNA of memes; but humans have been around for much longer before these parasites learned to exploit our sociality.