Episode 320: Love has nothing to do with relationships

This will be a bitter pill to swallow for many people, but love
has nothing to do with relationships. Whereas relationships are
the medium through which value is transacted -- and, therefore,
require rules, definitions, and compromises in order to "do
business" -- love is royally indifferent to all of these things
and expects nothing in return. This is because relationships are
about getting what you want, while love is a passage into a
higher form of life through the gateway of the humiliated self.
And since love only wants what is best for the other -- without
care of its own self-interest -- love can only justifiably want a
relationship if that relationship were in the best interests of
the other...which it probably isn't.


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