What is the significance of the word "Love" in our entire culture and society?

[johnsondomini]

We have this tendency to say the word “Love”, as if love is an idea. There’s too much of the word “Love”. It has been commercialized, socialized, propagandized, corrupted like religion has. There’s too much expression or understanding of the word love and not any understanding of what is hate. In the form of thought, to me love is hate. You demonstrate this everyday in your relationships with the child or partner. To man love is; war, love is materialistic accessories, love is land, love is selfishness, love is division, love is the nature of being greedy, love is the love of his petty nation or gang, love is all the opposites of love. So the proper word to use effectively is compassion, but I reckon that the word compassion mustn’t be treated like the word love. Compassion is a much compressed meaning, and has a universal meaning rather than the punctured word, “Love”.
So…Love is hate. That is your meaning of Love. We have turned it into just merely words of expression. Love is not the “word love”. You say you love and care about humanity. Then you would prevent all wars. If you had deep love and affection for them, that’s what you would do at all means, whatever the consequence. But that depends on you and not somebody else. Only you must see this. Change or continue living only in a world of petty hate and no sense of true love.

 

[Pay Back Kills]

Love seems to show a deeper emotional connection between two beings. I fully agree when you say that love has been “commercialized, socialized, propagandized, corrupted" to such an extent that sometimes one can lose touch of the true potential of the bottomless meaning. Love has been filtered through society through chocolates and sex, lust and passion and when one thinks they love they may not truly realize how over-used and over-reacted the term has wilted. But I do think there are different levels of a ‘love’ not partially of that term but of connectional relations between two beings; like the relations between a mother and child are truly different then the relations of a husband to a wife. You cannot deny the “bond” between blood (such as the mother and child example) but you can quote that the term of love is sometimes over-represented. I also think compassion and love are two different reflections of relations: while passion may lead to sexual gratitude, genuine care shows the meaning of dealings.

Overall I feel that we are all affected by the hormonal nature we deal with as humans and though I agree that love is a very over-priced word, our society and personal individually are truly unique and we have certain relationships that strive for an emotional and physical connection- causing society to love and hate.