Love and the ethics of wickedness
I’ve written before about how I believe that love trumps morality. That is to say that morality is more base than love. Morality as a set of rules to follow, a set of edicts laid out by society, is something to be transcended. And love–specifically due understanding and attention–is that transcendence.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: attention is love. Maybe this is just Stranger in a Strange Land talking, but if you truly understand something, you’ll know how to treat it, how to handle it, and when it needs to be destroyed. To grok is to love.
When you’ve got love in your heart, love for the universe, for all existence, your every action is full of grace and divinity. Your hand becomes the hand of a god as it carries out its steady purpose. That purpose is love itself, which knows no rules. Death can be love. And so can a kiss.
Morality is obviously contextual. In one society, ethics dictate finding a peaceable agreement. In another, vengeful violence. We can debate which one is correct and find no answer in a postmodern world. What knows no context is love. **And you cannot
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