![]() ![]() ![]() After all, as bell hooks reminds us in her impassioned and positive new book, love is our destiny. We can renew our spirit and choose to listen to the voice of hope. No matter how damaged or deprived we may have been, love's power to heal and redeem is always available. She urges us to follow the love ethic - to work together in out communities, to value friendship, to participate in love. If love is learned during childhood, how can we be surprised that violent and lying parents engender mistrustful, alienated children? Similarly, in the community, love is often driven out by the lust for material consumption, leading to drug dependency. ![]() Hooks encourages us to examine our family backgrounds. It is denied by patriarchal masculinity and stifled by consumer greed. It cannot flourish in a hurtful or abusive environment. Instead, it is the will to nurture our and other's spiritual growth. Love is not romanticism, nor is it narcissism. In her radical new book, bell hooks challenges all our assumptions. ![]()
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