For such a radical board of activists, I wonder why it seems to have occured to no one that the myth of romantic love is nothing more than that: a myth.

Furthermore, it's a myth that is propagated, reinforced and reiterated by the very people that profit from us investing incredible amounts of time and energy into trying to create perfect loves, perfect romances and perfect families when there has never been any such evidence that any such thing exists.

There's nothing wrong with sex--in fact, there's nothing wrong with love--but the romantic monogamy-thing everyone is talking about on this thread is just so much bullshit to keep the people in line. Between searching for the mythical holy grail of true love, and desperately trying to hold on to whatever we think it is, we don't pay attention to what's going on around us.

The individual feels massive love for all kinds of people. Unfortunately, we're taught to supress it, instead of sharing it. Love is supposed to be some kind of weakness until you find some 'deserving' person and then you're allowed to admit that you love them, if you promise not to love anyone else and you implicitly promise each other that you won't grow or change. Then you spend the rest of your respective lives working to make house payments and buy fucking diamonds and shit, or just to keep a couple of your favoured individuals fed and sheltered with no regard for anyone else. You don't have time or energy to worry about the kids down the street or in the rest of the world, and anyway, as you hear over and over, true love is the most important thing. More important than justice, more important than respect; all is fair in love and war.

True love is the most important thing in a way: Che said that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love. Feel the love you have for your lover or your family and use that to extrapolate to the rest of the world and suddenly love becomes revolutionary. As soon as you can't stand to see anyone be treated in a way you couldn't stand to see your "true love", I think you become a true revolutionary.