The anthropological history of love

The history  of books, the history of men

Is the story of the disruption in the flow of love.

That is the essence of human civilization.

It from the beginning was the creator of human civilization.

Did thought come first, or was it love?

When  love was seen to be good,

Intelligence was born. Love works.

And intelligence is there to make it work.

Better and better. Even if its end rule

Is that you must deceive the intelligence

In order to truly know love.

Your faith must be greater than your reason,

For without it reason knows not what to do.

There is no couple but for Radha and Krishna.

Freud's story of the birth of human self-awareness:

It came when the jealous young’uns got together and killed

The overbearing dominator, the alpha male, their father

Who hoarded all the females and enjoyed them at his leisure

And left the others to surreptitious canoodling under hidden branches.

After the parricide they were consumed by guilt

And so began to venerate his memory in contrition

Neurotically inventing ritual to expiate the guilt.

By exalting his memory, exaggerating his powers

internalizing whatever virtues they suddenly realized  

they had lost

By their sin against love.

They had fallen from an ordered paradise

And so intelligence was born

And the analysis of love was begun

And thus it was that
the human race began to grow up.