Love, Family, and Immortality

February 24, 2010 at 9:50 am

Love. We cannot escape the word or its many transitive meanings constructed by both millions of years of evolution and hundreds of years of media and culture any more than we can escape pondering over its connection to family or our own mortality. Everything we take for granted is bound up in one or more of these fundamental elements of human psychology. But what do we get from seeing them all through the same lens–a lens admittedly colored a special shade of cynically skeptical, irritably empirical, and scathingly naked?
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