According to Zizek, everyone should love everything around them because that is what made up their life. "But you see perfection in imperfection itself. And that how you should learn to love the world. True Ecologist love all this" (1:04:24 to 1:04:41). In one way or another, I do somehow understand why Zizek would think this way, but I had to disagree with it. People can not love everything in their life, and it is not possible to be able to love everything without a reason.
To start thing off, Zizek said:"Love is not idealization" (1:03:58). It is true that people do not need a reason to love someone or something. According to the Bible, "Love is patient, love is kind. It always protect, always hope, always trust, and always preserve" (Corinthian, 13:4-7). But can you just love something without knowing what it is? We are living in a society where danger could approach at any given time, we are also living in a world surrounded by hatred. This is the reason why war and racism exist. People can not love everything and everyone. Love require an unconditional trust, and hope toward someone or something, but is that possible? No. Society had shaped the human mind into what they are today. We lived in a life surrounded by lies and doubts. Friends can one day become enemies, and your creator can one day became sorrow. In my experience, the people whom gave birth to me had taught me that loving something, or someone without knowing who they are is impossible as they themselves abandoned me on a corn field, alone under the summer heat.
With that being said, the only way to support Zizek point is sympathy instead of love. You can sympathize your life, your environment, and people. And from that, if thing goes right, develop to love. Such as what my parent did. Seeing a kid in a paper box alone on a muddy ground on the cornfield, they sympathized, and took me home. Now that we had been together for 18 years, the sympathy during that summer day had turned into the love that I had today. My creator is a part of life, but there is no way I for me to love them. Love requires time and commitment, it can not being given to anyone and anything.
Dang, first off, great blog post overall. I do agree with you that society and history has shaped our ideologies, which tend to discriminate and isolate certain groups. In addition, I agree that unconditional love involves seeing someone or something as they are (warts and all) and accepting them because this actually enhances who they are. You had a great point about how we can't really love nature (trash and all) because we intentionally separate it from ourselves because we are disgusted by waste, even though it came from us. Because we do not accept waste or trash, we are ignorant of nature, and when you are ignorant about something (i.e. do not accept all the flaws as they are), you cannot really love it.
ReplyDeleteDang, I totally agree with you when you say we cannot love something if we do not know what it really is. We can't just love someone without knowing them, but at the same time it doesn't mean we hate them.
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