We all have tasted it at some point in our lives. This little thing we call love is quite an innundating thing at times nothing else causes a faster abandonment of logic. Yet how do we create our idea of what love is? I argue that love's social construction is primarily top down through rehatched representations of love.
Many simply look towards the media for ideas for expressing and understanding of this thing we call love. A represitation of love goes through the process of transliteration. Think of reading a literal translation of a Beowulf. Words, phrases and ideas are completely different in this sense. Instead of trying to figure out love and passions based on our own experiences, many resort to the movies to interpret their feelings and desires. How do we express our feelings? Well what did John Cusack do (I'm just as guilty as anyone else in this crime)?
The most common example of these tragedies of media misuse, is the guy's often all to lame attempt at 'breaking out of the friend zone' with that good friend of his. Instead of looking at the situation from a sociological or scientific lens, movies such as When Harry Met Sally are consulted.
So without further ado, I give you Harvard's world renowned professor in metacognition, Steven Pinker. A fun 10 minute lecture on love just for you, my heroes.
I.guess.it.should.be.mentioned.that.it.is.more.fun.to.follow.your.heart.over.logic.
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