Perspectives on Love (Bell Hooks)
Hello everyone, today I'd like to talk about perspectives that I have recently come to on love. It is mostly informed by my reading of the book 'All About Love' by Bell Hooks, and of course, some video essays that I unhealthily binge-watch along with my meals. It is quite hard to talk about love in an objective manner. One of the primary reasons for this is that most of us are not even talking about the same thing when we use the word, love. When the word is used in a rap song that has been created in today's culture, (though that is probably a rarity) it is referring to or trying to represent quite a different concept from what a spiritual guru uses it for example. Love is Spiritual One connotation I found interesting was something that relates very (seemingly) disparate paradigms of thought; Transgressive literature and Kashmiri Shaivism. I haven't read the primary texts for either of these so my interpretations might be wrong, however, the concept is interesting