Jacob, can you explain *love* -- REAL love with D-SP? If you can and do -- I know I will become a disciple.
Madamar, I started to work on the subject today, while waiting for the transport to take me to a ball on the quite coincidental celebration of the LOVE FESTIVAL. This yearly event follows the biblical custom --the girls dressed in their white costumes, garlands adorning their tresses, singing, pageantry, dancing...
As previously published, I posit that love was incipient when Man made its sudden appearance, because he had an instinctual need for the feminine part that the mutational deletion had made him lose, and which was present in the hermafroditic menwomen. As previously explained, Woman had to slowly evolve, under the evolutionary pressures of men's selective sexual taste and the life risk when delivering a male fetus. And, at a given moment, a very 'feminine' Woman caused a sudden emotional impact on a Man: he wanted HER for HIM only. This feeling gave rise to unavoidable jealousy.
Now, Madamar, as per your request, I am adding thr following:
As very feminine 'women' were born, more males were able to desire them on a permanent basis; they formed families with their mates by fathering and mothering children. This trait was useful for society's development; thenceforth the family nucleus becoming widely developed among those hominids.
Language, now supported by writing, subsequently perfected to a high degree, allowing poetry to be discovered, sweet words of intense desire for a specific woman hence being coined. Love became now less instinctual --less dictated by evolutionary pressures of survival by reproduction-- and more sophisticated, acquiring its emotive human quality as we know it today.
Sexual need had now separated from the feelings toward the sex object. At such moment, love was truly existent. Such development was patchy, geographically localized, failing to become equally manifested in diverse populations. Being a complex set of feelings, love, like other emotions (strong feelings) is felt and expressed differently in different societies, and, of course, within a given society, also being influenced by age and circumstances.
In time, Homo sapiens arose, myriads of years ago, yet it took quite a while until a primitive way of WRITING was invented. At that moment in evolution language had already become fluent, as the capacity to coordinate breathing and speech had priorly developed.
Sounds interesting, Jacob, a nice essay, but I really prefer naked love, divested of philosophical trappings...