Why I Could Never Love You
I don't love you because it's weird to love people you don't know.
Don't you watch TV? You can't just go up to people and offer them your love and best hopes without conditions. Only rapists, serial killers and paedophiles initiate conversation or display emotion to strangers. If people you don't know were not something to be wary of, why does the word "strange" mean what it does?
I don't love you because to do so would make it impossible for me to survive.
Did you not go to school? They teach you there that it is survival of the fittest, and that only the strongest will remain. How then can I do what I need to do to survive in this world, if I love you? Perhaps in another world, we could have been the greatest of friends. But in this one, where there is not enough to go around, you are my adversary. The day you start loving your adversaries, is the day you resign yourself from the game. And that day, my would-be friend, is the day you lose.
I don't love you because you don't love me.
Haven't you ever got anything for free? If you did, you would know that there is nothing in this world that comes without a cost. You can have free education, but it will cost you your time, your imagination, and likely your desire to learn. You can use snapchat or facebook for free, but you will pay for that with your location, photo, text and even biometric information. You can get free healthcare, but any immediate alleviation of health issues will cost you further, often more significant "complications" down the line. Everything in this world has a price on it, so why should I love you without getting something in return? It's not like the act of loving you could be beneficial to me in itself...
I don't love you because you're too different.
Have you not given yourself any labels yet? You should. They help you determine who you should socialise with, who you should marry, and who you should love. If I had not reduced the boundless limits of my infinite complexity to the sole identifying label of libertarian,I would never have met the friends that I did, and would never have gotten the chance to meet my ex-wife. If you were a libertarian, I could love you too. But you're an Islamic, homosexual, emo, Beiber fan who believes the Earth is flat. If I love you, my libertarian friends will ask me why. How could I possibly explain that?
I don't love you because then we would be too powerful.
Have you not seen how divided we are? Brothers against brothers, sisters against sisters. Blacks against whites, Christians against Muslims, Atheists against theists. Man United fans against Chelsea fans, Mayweather's fans against McGregor's. The right vs the left, the right vs the far right. Straights against gays, men against women. Those for abortion vs those who are against it, and those who believe bitcoin is the people's saviour, against those who think Bitcoin is, and always was intended to be, the complete opposite.
From the Disney channel to the night-time news, why do you think they try so hard to pit us against one another? Why do you think they try so hard to make it impossible for us to love our fellow humans? Because, my would-be friend, love is our strongest weapon, and as long as we are divided, we are disarmed. Love has a power that they do not want to see realised, the power to bind.
The community that thinks of strangers as someone who may be in need of help or companionship, rather than someone who may mean to do them harm, or someone unworthy of thought at all, is a community that is invulnerable to the divide-and-conquer strategy that we have been subjected to for centuries. Furthermore, such a community would not be able to adhere to the demands of modern society, and so modern society, how it runs, and who runs it, would have to go.
I want to love you, my neighbour. But this is why they will never let me.
There is the hallmark card kind of love, that is given and taken We write poems about it and even kill over it. Then there is the experience or state of being, which is within and without us. Not dependent on any one. Peace and goodwill.