WHEN ALL YOU HAVE IS LOVE1…
A Kyoto for Love Danièle Starenkyj© 2016 www.publicationsorion.com
The Kyoto Protocol, the agreement between countries to combat climate change signed in 1997, was intended to be an agreement to combat everything generated by humans that disrupts the climate. Of course, the concerns of the countries involved were as much human as climatic, with greenhouse gases increasingly disrupting the economic activities of societies through disasters, and ultimately threatening the very life of industrialized countries. Signature, ratification, implementation, enforcement... Time passes. Conferences multiply... Cataclysms too, and, grim reality, it is becoming "normal" in some countries to wear a mask to avoid suffocation.
Following the First World War, a philosopher, Herman de Keyserling, having "psychoanalyzed" Europe2, noted that the new world that had just emerged from this global conflagration was running a danger that few people suspected: "This danger is that love risks dying on earth." Love between a man and a woman, "this work of art created for spiritual motives," is no longer fashionable, he protested, and traveling the world, he reported: In Spain and Italy, love is generally only passion; in Germany, if it is not crude, it is outrageous sentimentality; in England, it is anaphrodisia; in Russia, it has been "scientifically" declared an "invention of capitalism"; throughout the Orient, it is considered so unimportant that one does not have to base one's life on it...
In April 2007, while campaigning for the presidency of France – that old country declared in 1930 by Keyserling as “the last refuge of love” – a woman (Ségolène Royal) aroused enthusiasm and nourished the hope of the younger generation by proclaiming, between justice and morality, three “noes”: “No to G-strings sticking out of trousers; no to pornography in advertising; no to hazing.”3
So no to falling out of love.
No to pornographic fashion. No to the commercial use of pornography. No to pornographic harassment. No to this hatred in freedom. No to this concentration camp of love where atrocities worthy of death camps are "virtually" committed against women, men, and children of all races... but tell me, with what hope of liberation when millions of porn addicts feast on it every day for several hours?
In this vast, odious laboratory where, for many decades now, a "free" sexuality has been concocted, demanding the right to be more and more "free," the guinea pigs are women, men, and children. But even if we take away the privilege of tenderness from humans, the fact remains that, irrevocably, men and women are essentially creatures fashioned for love. And in this glorious destiny, the woman—loved by man and loving the child—remains the privileged link.
We urgently need a Kyoto for love. Worse than the greenhouse gases that threaten our survival, lovelessness stifles our human identity. And the droughts of such lovelessness, the floods, storms, hurricanes, landslides, tidal waves, famines, and infectious diseases of this disinterest, have already too deeply affected our social, familial, and personal fabric.
Poets have long sung to us: It is difficult to love... but to love with true love is the only human mission that makes the one who is passionate about it a noble and honorable visionary... It is the only path on which one can begin the pursuit of happiness to find it. The impossibility of welcoming love remains in the 21st century, the key to an inability to live, and the foundation of all neurotic illness. One author, Dr. R. A. Lambourne, formally stated: "You will know you have become yourself when you love and are loved."
We must put an end to the deadly duel that pits men against women and women against men. Certainly, men no longer understand women, but women no longer understand each other either. We would like to put on ice the idea that life—your life, my life—is the result of the intimate union of the masculine principle and the feminine principle. We would like to doubt that everyone has received the privilege of assuming one or the other principle with joy and happiness. We no longer see that virile power and feminine gentleness give existence its majesty and beauty, and that combined, united, fused, they are also the possibility, and the eternity of love.
Love is a gift. Love is a grace. Love is an art.
We all have the talent for love. It's time to recognize it.
Because when you only have love... you have everything, you are everything, you can do everything. 5. Danièle Starenkyj © 2016 www.publicationsorion.com
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1. Title of a song by Jacques Brel.
2. Keyserling H. de, Spectral analysis of Europe, Gonthier, 1930.
3. WWW. RFI.FR, Sarkozy-Royal Debate.
4. Starenkyj D., photo, Mariphotographie
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