Fixing...What's Love Got To Do...With Writing?

taken from: http://www.wallpapersfreedesktop.com/
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Well, okay so to begin this post, let me make this very simple.  Yesterday, I used this blog to "vent my spleen" as we would say in the Renaissance.

Without saying, this is inappropriate.  This blog is supposed to be about writing and supposed to be about exploring my imagination and the concepts there in, not about climbing up on a soapbox and offending people.

I don't really know if I did, but if I did, then I would like to offer you all my most sincere apologies.

When it comes to deeply set issues of who we are we should all come together in discussion rather than using a public platform for arguing.  We should operate in discussion.

However, there are some salvageable gems from yesterday's little rant.

First, let me be frank, I have very high ideals about what love is.  Even though these maybe high standards, they are not unobtainable.  I've seen them with my own two eyes.  Love is a long journey.  A road over mountains, through valleys, and over raging rivers.  We need to be strong to make it through.  We need someone to carry us when we're weak, or drag us when we can't walk, or someone to lie with when we both are hurting.  But then someone also to soar with, to touch the stars and taste the Milky Way in our heights of joy.  In short, we need to grow together and become compatible.

Secondly, I think as writers, just as with all mass media engineers, we need to be honest with what love is and not just glorify the bedroom activities.  We shouldn't deceive the audience in thinking it all is beautiful and amazing.  I believe if we're going to display sexuality, then we need to not be blind to the dark side and we need to find ways to care for those hurt by our messages.  Social responsibility.

Third, I believe it's important for us to help create and become role models the generations to be.  We often argue that, well my book / CD / movie wasn't meant for that young of an audience.  The point becomes moot when the PR team begins to market it toward the audience with the most disposable income.  That point vanishes once that generation already has it in their hands.  And that point becomes especially moot when the emulation becomes apparent.