besotting love
Lucretius and Esther Vilar have given the best descriptions and analyses of besotting love. We have all been forewarned. Still: it happens all the time:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,577900,00.html
love sets you unfree
“Liebe macht unfrei» [„love sets you unfree"] is the title of an interview Peer Teuwsen made with Esther Vilar
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The idolatrous state of slavery produced by infatuation [= romantic love] is a one of Vilar’s important sub-themes within the central theme of freedom vs. slavery. “Liebe macht immer unfrei. Das ist eine Religion mit der kleinstmöglichen Gemeinde. Gott und Anbeter im Verhältnis eins zu eins.” [„Love will always set you unfree. It is a religion with the smallest possible congregation. God and Worshipper in a ratio of 1 to 1."]
Epicurus warned against this kind of slavery 2300 years ago already – for the vast majority in vain.
intoxicated by liberation philosophy
“The best of life is but intoxication.” (Byron)
In my younger days it was vodka, whiskey, wine, sex, romantic love, theater, movies, literature, philosophy I got intoxicated with. Nowadays it’s mostly just literature and philosophy. Luckily I take up ideas slowly and forget them fast (some of my friends suggest that this could possibly be a retarded effect of all the alcohol I got intoxicated with in my younger days), so I can re-read pages again and again on human bondage and liberation by Epicurus, Michel Montaigne, Voltaire, Esther Vilar, Bertrand Russell, Kurt Vonnegut, Manfred Max-Neef and about a dozen of other authors experiencing every time almost the same thrill I felt when I first read them. Is this an anticipation of the beatitudes promised by Alzheimer ‘s?
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