Love/Force
I've always been suspicious of the word "love". There is something coercive about it. There's something snake-like about it. Like it's not really what it seems. It's not that I don't *feel* what the word is implying for my family or my favorite band. It's just that this feeling doesn't seem to match the way people use the word. The word love seems to hint at other things, like blind loyalty. Like when the word "love" is used, you can justify projection, or you can justify why someone should do what you say, believe what you say or listen to you at all. I don't want to sound bitter or cynical, I'm really not. I've let most of that go - but you know like in Star Wars when they say "use the force" and it's supposed to be this benevolent thing, this thing that saves the universe - (and not that force is good or bad or inherently moral) but the way "they" use it - there's something double handed about i