Love Literacy: A Media Literacy Approach

Each day more and more people fail to keep their marriage and turn single. Musicians sometimes call our age ‘the age of love,’ but the ever- increasing individualism has made it evident that ‘love’ is now at its worst situation in human history. Evolutionists tell us that around 2 billion years ago, prokaryotes miraculously started exchanging genes in order to become more effective and competitive. In this sense, love has a merely biological origin and not a romantic one. Moreover, the sociology of love tells us that ‘love’ can be a social construct by and large. Love is something we construct rather than inherit in a solid form. That’s why Durkheim contrasts between love and passion and sees the former as more natural. Many sociologists tell us of love that romantic love is a construct of the modern age. Most natural emotional needs would have been automatically satisfied in the pre-modern tribal environments, and the passionate love that we know today and yearn for rarely existed in the past Read more . . .