Makers Magazine - Spring 2024 - Flipbook - Page 39
CULTURE
THE ILLUSION WE CALL LOVE
Western Culture is brimming with depictions of love. From the day we
are born we are bombarded with these subjective views of love. Whether
it seeped into our young brain through our parent’s television shows, the
commercials in between or the innocent Disney movies — it slowly began
to imprint illusions of love upon us as we developed. However, love is much
more different, complicated & deeper than the Hollywood portrayal we’ve
come to know as the truth. Without a firm understanding of what love is and
it’s origin, the chances of it’s success in any context are slim when it operates
within a culture where “me” is emphasized over “we”.
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