Love Deficit

One might wonder where the liberal status quo stands amidst the ongoing political and social polarization in the United States between left and right. The answer, to put it simply, is that the liberal status quo does not have any real solutions for the problems which they have generated and in turn have no solutions for the problems which have led to the environment and situation of political and social polarization in the United States. Quite frankly, their only solution is to put as many people in jail as possible, the shaky and illegitimate grounds for which is to make a mountain out of a molehill and to find justifications and pretexts for throwing people in jail which are simply not there. I have been through such circumstances and situations in my own life, and as a result, I can attest to what is really going on in a broader sense.

The first step is trial by media, and then hope that the trial by media which is outside of the due process laws of the country sticks in the minds of jurors and judges and the people so that people are thrown in jail for the problems which the liberal status quo created. Moreover, the criminalization and demonization of pleasure and sex on the part of the liberal status quo, which is the basis for the trial by media and so forth, and the prudery, envy, jealousy, and Nietzschean morality which underpins the liberal status quo’s mentality towards pleasure and sex is borderline pathological and sociopathic and it does more damage than good for society over the long run. The expectation of perfection creates more imperfections in society than if we were to accept imperfections and be more lenient towards one another. 

Also, cowardice thwarts any hope or optimism that the liberal status quo would cast its lot with social democracy as a countervailing measure against angry populism and nativism. To put it rather crudely, the liberal status quo is too stingy to cast its lot with social democracy as a countervailing measure against angry populism and nativism. By failing to realize that they cannot take their billions to the grave with them, the liberal status quo is undermining both worlds per se.

So, if the liberal status quo is too stingy to prompt social democracy as a countervailing measure against angry populism and nativism, and if putting everyone in jail is nonsensical and illegal, and the cure and remedy for our problems as an international society is not the anger and rage of populism and nativism, then what is the cure and the remedy for our problems? The cure and the remedy, oddly enough and paradoxically, is that the cure and remedy is the disease and the illness itself until the essence is intuitively found and gathered through the course of life and through the course of our experience as a society. As Shakespeare wrote in his “Dark Lady Sonnets”:

My love is as a fever longing still,
For that which longer nurseth the disease;
Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill,
The uncertain sickly appetite to please.
My reason, the physician to my love,
Angry that his prescriptions are not kept,
Hath left me, and I desperate now approve
Desire is death, which physic did except.
Past cure I am, now Reason is past care,
And frantic-mad with evermore unrest;
My thoughts and my discourse as madmen’s are,
At random from the truth vainly expressed;
For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,
Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

As mentioned before, free artistic and creative expression is the emblem and prime indicator of the health and functionality of an individual and of a society. And as Vincent Van Gogh said: “There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.” In turn, this pervasive inability and incapacity to love people on the part of the liberal status quo, or this “love deficit” to borrow from Cornel West, will do more damage to our society and to our world than any kind of material or financial deficit which can arise at any given point in time.