Unrequited Love Part 2

Part of the issue is the "romantic myth" grounded in the literature and song of 12th Century Europe...most specifically the province of "roman".

So we see here that the world has been conquered twice by the same word.

But where one held the sword in "Pax Romana" (peace at any cost) the other is a conqueror of hearts and minds in an almost upward viral way.

From the Medieval troubadours the virus of romantic love took Western civilization from the near primordial stories of Tristan and Iseult. With King Mark, this triad morphs later into Camelot, Shakespeare, and feeds a near Middle Eastern pipeline of energy into modern romanticism. Every television show, novel, film...or shitty magazine on the shelf at Safeway is informed by this romantic myth.

It is always a triad. That triad can be and man and woman and danger. That triad can be a man and woman and another woman, or man. That triad can be a man and a man and a disease. It can be Brad, Jen and Angelina, or it can be Scott, Lacey and the judicial system.

It sells. It attracts. There is drama in the triad.

And drama is what we want...and get.

But we do not necessarily get love. That's the trick.

And maybe why the divorce rate in California is like 60 percent, with another 25 percent just opting out entirely.

Maybe the myth is at fault?

Isn't it interesting that at the core of the romantic myth is unrequited love?
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