Love, so commercial
Today being the Feb 14 of our calendar, the day when people trip over themselves to make confessions of love, it seems a pretty fine day to blog about love.
Valentine's Day is basically a cunning distortion of an ancient bitter love story by unscrupulous merchants out to make a quick buck out of starry-eyed lovers. This suitably explains why merchants spend money to take out commercials and not so subtle reminders we find everywhere and anywhere to announce the impending Feb 14. But we all already know that.
The reasoning behind it well, maybe just a deep primal need to be loved and love and V-day lends a perfect platform for it to show. Gulit-free and socially constructed within society's own guidelines.
This kind of reasoning is the only one that i can fathom as to why perfectly sane people would fork out insane amount of money for things as mundane as fine dining and half bloom roses. What is a little bit of money annually if it means scoring valuable brownie points with the beau of your choice? Sounds alot like annual country club membership fees to me.
We had just briefly examined the demand for males, now on to the females.
Ever heard of unattached females buying themselves roses, chocolates in little heart-shaped boxes just to make themselves feel better? So that they wouldn't 'lose face'? Such tales abound as conformity is again being mercilessly used by money minded merchants to hawk their seasonal product. The market might be small now but with growing female afflunce and increasing numbers of so called 'feminist' (who can't suffer the so called indignity of opening their own car doors), this market might just see some exponential increase in the so not far future.
well, i guess i should really stop here because if i go on about it anymore, i might just convince myself that loving and to be loved is all futile and i would really dread that, wouldn't i? I would really want to keep the romanticized version of 'romantic love' somewhat intact, even if it just serves as a break from the dreary world.
'the greatest thing you will ever learn is to love and be loved in return'
Today being the Feb 14 of our calendar, the day when people trip over themselves to make confessions of love, it seems a pretty fine day to blog about love.
Valentine's Day is basically a cunning distortion of an ancient bitter love story by unscrupulous merchants out to make a quick buck out of starry-eyed lovers. This suitably explains why merchants spend money to take out commercials and not so subtle reminders we find everywhere and anywhere to announce the impending Feb 14. But we all already know that.
The reasoning behind it well, maybe just a deep primal need to be loved and love and V-day lends a perfect platform for it to show. Gulit-free and socially constructed within society's own guidelines.
This kind of reasoning is the only one that i can fathom as to why perfectly sane people would fork out insane amount of money for things as mundane as fine dining and half bloom roses. What is a little bit of money annually if it means scoring valuable brownie points with the beau of your choice? Sounds alot like annual country club membership fees to me.
We had just briefly examined the demand for males, now on to the females.
Ever heard of unattached females buying themselves roses, chocolates in little heart-shaped boxes just to make themselves feel better? So that they wouldn't 'lose face'? Such tales abound as conformity is again being mercilessly used by money minded merchants to hawk their seasonal product. The market might be small now but with growing female afflunce and increasing numbers of so called 'feminist' (who can't suffer the so called indignity of opening their own car doors), this market might just see some exponential increase in the so not far future.
well, i guess i should really stop here because if i go on about it anymore, i might just convince myself that loving and to be loved is all futile and i would really dread that, wouldn't i? I would really want to keep the romanticized version of 'romantic love' somewhat intact, even if it just serves as a break from the dreary world.
'the greatest thing you will ever learn is to love and be loved in return'
posted by Tong at 11:40 PM
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