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“Can’t buy love and other Myths that make your World go round.”

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I find it interesting that Love, above all else, is a precious commodity. Although we are encouraged by religion, philosophy, art, and our sexual urges to disperse our love with ubiquity, humans have adapted to retain as much Love as we possibly can for ourselves. It is almost as though our hunger for Love is so profound that we would rather horde it than release, express, or act on it. But that word again keeps creeping up – product, commodity. In essence love can only be had if it can only be properly bartered or in our Western society appropriately bought. And you thought you couldn’t buy love. Baloney, it’s there simply to be bought and resold like a used car, the more mileage and dinks it has chalked up the less it is understood to be worth by the players of society which by definition includes you…

Love in essence is waiting if you are willing to subscribe to what the market place will bear.

“You- tall, dark, handsome and socially independent and with a value set and matching bank account to accommodate my neuroses and wonderfully delicious good looks.”

This may all be harsh but of course it only defines the mad reality of such TV shows called ‘Who wants to marry a millionaire?’ the “Khloe Khardasian fantasy – I married a TV star and became one too,” pilot, and all the other social fabrications that we are continuously bombarded with  from the moment we wake up. In essence society wants us all to be in love assuming we can all afford it and or do it within appropriate guises, hence the onset of another migraine and a post midnight call to your dealer or run to the bar…

One can easily conclude that this society, at best, is very confused about the emotion, confirmed by the penny-pulp novels that showcase strapping lads saving young hearts or the hundreth million magazine cover extolling who is the new bachelor of the year, whether you achieved orgasm last night and whether he or she is really that into you? Really how can anyone be into anyone when they are barely into themselves,  make up and fast cars aside?

If this isn’t enough, there’s the holiday that we’ve contrived for it as well- Valentines Day. With eyes upturned and mouths twisted, it has been cynically proclaimed in its latter day to be a waste of time and money; a commercial scam instigated mostly by Hallmark and Wal-Mart. Its history is paved with half-truths and broken promises—even blood; it’s conception is both dubious and honorable..

As much as you relish or dread Valentine’s Day, the myth, the event itself needs to be attacked because the majority of the United States is so neurotic and socially ineffable that we end up lonely on the very day that gives us every excuse in the world to be as socially (sexually) “deviant” as our ostensibly puritan society will allow us to be.

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