Romance, the compensatory emotional opiate for the former sibling/fraternal/sororal solidarity

Romance, the compensatory emotional opiate for

the former sibling/fraternal/sororal solidarity

 

If one wants to talk about the substance abuse that adversely

affects communities, put ‘romance’ at the top of the list. It is

the surrogate for the missing or the lacking public bonds that

are undermined by the mores of memes and the ‘substance’ of

the sexual act that places an emotional vulnerability onto one

(or more-for the more philandering!) for the undermined communal

bonds abandoned for the ‘rewards of intimacy’ with the one. Those

rewards ARE more intense than the previous altruistic affections and

loyalties of one’s pre-hormonal relations. Those former altruistic

loyalties had established a commonality of community among the

‘br’ers’ and ‘sisthas’. 

Societal demands had no use for the “one-for-all and “all-for-one”,

except as it served their institutional agendas and ends. As far back

as scripture, the exhortation (for economic expeditious reasons) for

such one-on-one cleaving, than group or gang cleaving was for the

mechanics of the economic order, than the organics of the communal

emotional order.

It’s quite interesting that the present resistance to the  cultural

homogenized organizational collectivization is probably the gasping

throes of resistance by those who see the organic themes of their

cultural expressions threatened by outside forces whose ways are

not only oppressive and repressive, but alien, per se, to their more

organic and implicit rules, than the fabricated rules and roles designed

not for empathetic relationships, but indifferent transactional ends.

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