The pervasive contempt for platonic (non-sexual) human relationships in 21st Century American society suggests an urgent need for an annual awards tradition.
I'm very hopeful that some non-profit philanthropic foundation will offer a generous annual award and financial prize to an individual, group of individuals, or non-profit organization in the United States that in the most recent calendar year or multi-year period contributed toward greater appreciation for the beneficial and benevolent role in each person's life from strictly-mutual-consent, non-sexual (platonic) personal relationships as well as mutually-constructive and platonic career-related relationships.
I was reminded of this need when I recently watched an MTV channel on television which suggested that each human being is eternally at the mercy of wildly libidinal impulses within himself. MTV conveys the message that if all of life is a stage, then every human being chooses to identify himself on that stage primarily through a series of near-naked poses on behalf of passion. The MTV songs and accompanying imagery fail to indicate that any human being is actually capable of a deep sense of platonic purpose or moral or religious purpose in his life; nor, according to MTV, are human beings capable of a deeper sense of true and convincing romantic love toward another human being.
Saturday, November 28, 2009
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