… a rich day of Readwise highlights…

Awesomely, our nation, like no other in the world, is a culture driven by the quest to love (it’s the theme of our movies, music, literature) even as it offers so little opportunity for us to understand love’s meaning or to know how to realize love in word and deed. (bell hooks, All About Love)

… could this be an awareness of the bankruptcy of the capitalist-patriarchal system without the knowledge of how to correct it?… we pine for love without knowing how to achieve it… without realizing what the problem is…