If the “love ethic” is present in every aspect of life, we will treat one another with care, respect, knowledge, integrity, and the will to cooperate. Her counsel: Use affirmations to bolster self-acceptance, if necessary, and replace negative thinking with positive thinking. For no matter how slight the untruth or secret, lying always does damage to love, says hooks. Here is love betrayed by both men (who may lie to achieve dominance) and women (who may lie to manipulate). Lowercase cultural-critic hooks (English/CCNY Remembered Rapture, 1999, etc.) tries to resuscitate love’s meaning, exploring love in its history, its definitions, its cultural context, and its values. Love, these days, is a four-letter word that has lost as much of its meaning as those other familiar four-letter epithets. Love is the answer, but it’s also the question posed by a cynical generation “bombarded by failure.” Though the dilemma is not solved here, huzzah for a valiant try.
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