SOURCES OF LOVE
Animal shelters say in coronavirus lockdown people are looking for new friends
Producer Yahoo News•April 11, 2020
Some essential elements (lies) of the macho-code are:
I am a MAN therefore Pain does not have to hurt, you just bite the bullet. Emotional pain is for children, weaklings and women
“As a MAN I am not weak enough to need LOVE» (meaning: I am strong enough to defy the second law of thermodynamics that rules the universe). What counts is not who am I -but how I look in front of other men. (We do have a rigid macho hierarchy scale of POWER)
Under the male-mind aegis, Love is a scarce commodity. So, we just suck it sneakily, from wherever-whomever we can. Favourite perennial targets are dogs, cats and, of course, our children who have deified us; cleaner more abundant sources impossible! They are what Alice Miller called (superb) “Compassionate Witnesses.” And we all, macho man included, need one. though we tend to hide in a pub with “friends and a pint of beer”-half-drunk witnesses will do for us -rather than expose our «weaknesses» and «become emotional.»
To be caught looking for love is a NO-NO!
That is the vast majority of men live off from a façade; a FALSE SELF.
Cultures -with their rules and regulations insure that all these falsities pass as true.