Take part in the resistance

Falling in love is an act of revolt - an act of resistance against a boring society that is socially and culturally repressive and increasingly meaningless to people. Love changes the face of the world. If the lovers previously felt bored, they are now filled with passion. If the lovers previously only lived in relation to themselves, they suddenly notice their true strength in no longer only relating to themselves, but also to each other. The world that once seemed so empty, meaningless and destructive now takes on meaning and offers risks, rewards, treasures and dangers. For the lovers, life is now a gift, the reward for the greatest adventure of all. Every moment becomes unforgettable and so incredibly wonderful that you can only be amazed. The lovers who previously felt disorientated, alienated and confused will suddenly know exactly what they want. Your existence will suddenly have meaning. It will suddenly become precious, even glorious and outstanding for them. Burning passion is the antidote to the worst cases of despair and resigned obedience.

Love makes it possible for individuals to connect with one another in a meaningful way. It leads them to risk coming out of their shells, living an honest and spontaneous life together and getting to know each other fundamentally. This is how love tears lovers out of the routines of everyday life and lets them shine out of the mass of others around them. The lovers will feel as if they are living in a completely different world. Therefore love is also subversive. It represents an attack on the prevailing order of our modern life. The boring rituals of working life, the exploitation and morals, mean nothing for people who have fallen in love, because there are bigger and more powerful forces that now drive them forward than just discipline and obedience to the laws, morals and traditions. Marketing strategies that target people's insecurities and apathy in order to sell products no longer have any influence on lovers. They will no longer be interested in entertainment for passive consumption that is designed for the emptiness and cynicism of its viewers.

There is no place for the romantic, passionate lovers in this world, neither in work time nor in free time. You will realize that it is more worthwhile to travel the world together or just sit in the park and count the clouds than to study for the math exam or sell real estate alone. And when they realize it, they will also have the courage to take this path instead of being tormented by their unsatisfied desires. They know that breaking into the graveyard and making love under the stars will be a more memorable night than a night in front of the telly. Thus, love carries out an attack on our consumerist economy, which is based on the consumption of (mainly useless) things and the work that this consumption requires to sustain itself.

At the same time, love represents an attack on our political system. It is difficult to convince a man who has enough personal relationships to live for to fight and die for something as abstract as a state. It will even be difficult to convince him to pay taxes. Love represents an attack on cultures of all kinds. When people receive wisdom and courage through true love, then traditions and constraints do not hold them back when they are irrelevant to the feelings that guide them. Love even represents an attack on society as such.

Passionate love is ignored and feared by the bourgeoisie because it poses a great threat to the stability and entitlement they desire. Love does not allow lies and falsehoods, not even polite half-truths. It exposes all emotions and reveals our deepest secrets. You cannot deny your feelings and your sexuality. Certain situations or ideas will excite you and others will repulse you, whether you like it or not, whether it is moral or not, whether it is proper or not. One cannot be a lover and a thoroughly responsible and respected member of this society at the same time. Because love will make you do things that are irresponsible and immoral. True love doesn't give a damn about responsibility. She is unshakable, rebellious, contemptuous of cowardice, dangerous for lovers and everyone around her because she serves only one master: the passion that makes the human heart beat faster. She despises everything else, be it self-preservation, obedience or shame. Love turns people into heroes and anti-heroes.

The lovers speak a different moral and emotional language than bourgeois people do. The typical citizen does not possess an overwhelming flaming desire. Unfortunately, all they know is quiet desperation. Despair that is the result of a life spent chasing the goals set for them by their families, their educators, their employers, their nation and their culture. Without ever being able to think about what they alone want and need. Without the burning desire within them, they have no basis for deciding what is right or wrong for them. So they are constantly forced to submit to some dogma or doctrine in order to get through life. There is a wide range of morals in the market of opinions. But whatever you choose, it is irrelevant as long as you accept this morality because you don't know what else to do with your life. How many people are there who have never realized that they can take their destiny into their own hands? People who wander through life in a fog, following the laws and norms that they have been taught and taught, for the sole reason that they have no idea what else they could do. In contrast, lovers do not need a ready-made set of rules to guide them through their lives. Her desires decide what is right and what is wrong and her heart guides her through her life. They see beauty and meaning in the world because their lusts paint the world in those colors.They don't need any dogmas, morals, orders or orders because they know what they have to do without any guidance.

In this sense, love actually attacks our form of society. What if everyone decided for themselves what was right and wrong for them, without regard to conventional morality? What if everyone did what they wanted and bravely faced the consequences that would follow? What if everyone feared the loveless and lifeless monotony of everyday life more than any risks, more than hunger and the cold? What if everyone would put aside their sense of responsibility and their so-called “common” sense and have the courage to reach for their wildest dreams, for the greatest treasures in the world and live every day like their last. What a place the earth would be then! In any case, it would be different than it is at the moment. And we shouldn't kid ourselves either. The greatest fear of middle-class people is the fear of change.

We are held back from real passionate love by our culture. We have only internalized their clichéd images, which are used by the media to sell toothpaste and honeymoon suites. “Letting our emotions guide us” only raises eyebrows among us. Instead, we are raised to always be in control of our feelings, because if we only listened to our hearts, we would supposedly go astray. Instead of being encouraged to bear the consequences ourselves without fear, we are encouraged not to take any risks in order to remain responsible. This is how love is regulated. Men are not allowed to fall in love with other men, women are not allowed to fall in love with other women or people from different ethnic backgrounds. And when they do, the usual moralists take a step forward in defense of modern Western culture against the unwilling individual. People who are already bound in a legal/religious contract are not allowed to fall in love with other people, even if they no longer feel passion in their spouses. Love, as most of us know it, is a precisely prepared and predetermined ritual. Something that takes place on Friday evenings in expensive cinemas, theaters and restaurants, increases the profits of the entertainment industry and allows the workers to return to the office on time the next working day and then be perfect wage slaves again all day long. This regulated and economical love is different from the lustful and passionate love that takes possession of the real lovers.These limitations, expectations and regulations stifle real love, because essentially it is a wild flower that can never bloom in the bed prepared for it, but breaks through everyday life where you least expect it. We must fight against this cultural domination that stifles and cripples our real passions. Because it is love that gives meaning to life and desires that make us give this meaning to our existence. Without these things, it remains impossible for us to decide how we want to live our lives. Right then, there is only one thing left for us to do: to submit to an authority, a God, a Lord, a cause or a doctrine that tells us what to do, without ever having tasted the sweet and bitter taste of self-determination. So use your time in the here and now. Fall in love today... With men, with women, with music, with your ambition, with yourself... with life!

Translated by dromanticESPERANZA