Whatever love is – it might, in the last analysis, resist any convenient summing up in a definition – it is most certainly not the simple, passive experience that popular culture or folkloric wisdom mocks it up to be. I Current popular culture, catering to and so dominated by the ubiquitous "youth," offers an adolescent notion of love: insipid high school types – blond cheerleader and stereotypical "jock" – find themselves mutually smitten; the girl's parents adduce high-handed reasons to oppose any intensification of the "relationship" past chaste dating; intensified, precisely, by parental opposition, the love-stricken couple do what the … Continue reading Love