Maybe courtly love has been reassigned to the fantasy realm. Maybe it's no longer considered love in modern society? And those fantasies, however necessary, must end eventually.
I don't think that the desires of the lover can ever be completely extinguished, barring an epiphany arsing from total betrayal of the virtue most admired in "the other". It's the drive towards "purity" of the "fundamentalist" (like Nietzschegirl's Autonomen). I suspect that what lead to the break-down in the song was Bowie's feelings of "unworthiness" arising from his alcoholism.
The aspiration to "swim with the dophins" remains "undiminished". To aspire to one another's betterment...remains the unextinguished desire... to be "heroes" (if even for just one more day).
Purity...circling the "sacred"... it's what we do. It may seem to be merely symbolic. But our brain is nothing but a symbol processing machine we used to associate with emotions and create meaning.
I guess i have always defined "love" by agape love, so courtly love seems much thinner and less meaningful to me. But i see your point about a drive towards what is pure.
The lyrics of Lazarus are SO SAD. I wonder if he had any belief in God when he died. He certainly struggled with the question for much of goo life.
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Maybe courtly love has been reassigned to the fantasy realm. Maybe it's no longer considered love in modern society? And those fantasies, however necessary, must end eventually.
I don't think that the desires of the lover can ever be completely extinguished, barring an epiphany arsing from total betrayal of the virtue most admired in "the other". It's the drive towards "purity" of the "fundamentalist" (like Nietzschegirl's Autonomen). I suspect that what lead to the break-down in the song was Bowie's feelings of "unworthiness" arising from his alcoholism.
The aspiration to "swim with the dophins" remains "undiminished". To aspire to one another's betterment...remains the unextinguished desire... to be "heroes" (if even for just one more day).
Purity...circling the "sacred"... it's what we do. It may seem to be merely symbolic. But our brain is nothing but a symbol processing machine we used to associate with emotions and create meaning.
I guess i have always defined "love" by agape love, so courtly love seems much thinner and less meaningful to me. But i see your point about a drive towards what is pure.
The lyrics of Lazarus are SO SAD.
I wonder if he had any belief in God when he died. He certainly struggled with the question for much of goo life.
*his life.
Blackstar, yes... I need to watch it again...
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