Much of the time, when we talk about “Platonic friendship,” we mean “I’m friends with that person who looks like an appropriate sex partner, but we’re not having sex.”
Platonic friendship is actually a huge part of Plato’s dialogues. (I’m still working my way through the main text of Gorgias, be patient with me, guys.)
Recently, the manosphere has been posting about friendship.
Free Northerner wrote:
Male social bonds were formed as a part of the gang. Men bonded through hunting and war parties. They bonded not through faggy emoting, but through shared action, shared virtue, shared goals, shared suffering, and shared victory. They built each other up to work together against the common foe.
Obviously, we can’t go back to the old warband model. There’s no opposing tribes to make war against anymore outside of the ghetto (at least not until the happening), and if you tried to do so, you’d go to jail. But men can attempt to rebuild the same pattern through the creation of a gang.
“The happening” probably refers to the predicted chaos that will disrupt current status-quo measures to repress Western citizens in their own countries.
For some reason, Ron Paul mentioned the word “happening,” so whenever you mention “happening” around Western uyoku, they post pictures of Ron Paul that look like this:
Rather bonding with a gang, Unca Bob suggests learning gratitude, even from dogs:
http://uncabob.blogspot.tw/2013/12/enough-is-as-good-as-feast.html
People understand the feelings of envy (although no one wants to admit it), hate, anger, revenge, contempt, humiliation…but gratitude and appreciation? They’re in short supply.
The late psychoanalyst Melanie Klein wrote a seminal book, Envy and Gratitude. She found there is a sequence: envy, guilt, reparations, gratitude. …
I sometimes try to model my life on that of a dog (who’s going to be more gratitude to see you if you leave them in a car for half an hour – your spouse or your dog?). Several times I’ve seen people in parks with their dogs. They throw a ball; the dog chases it and brings it back, then drops the ball at the owners’ feet and barks for it to be thrown again. The dog is immensely enjoying this simple pleasure. Do the dogs feel gratitude and appreciation? Maybe I’m imagining the whole thing, but it sure seems like they do.
Perhaps only in some form of love can there be gratitude.
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And I suppose if you can enjoy every sandwich that, too, is a kind of love.
Hawaiian Libertarian cut to the heart of the “Platonic friendship” issue by mentioning the deadliest L-word – LOVE.
http://hawaiianlibertarian.blogspot.tw/2013/12/for-children.html
The entire rotten, crumbling edifice of what was once a civilized society, can be pinpointed on the promotion of leading people to think that the key to happiness is to focus on satisfying any and all of their selfish desires. In even simpler terms, it is a message influencing people to adopt a mindset focused on taking and receiving, and not giving and sharing. This attitude is especially corrosive in interpersonal relationships, of which marriage used to be one of the closest and strongest bonds ever created between two human beings….but it also applies to friendships and extended familial bonds as well.
This focus on selfishness is the very anti-thesis of true love.
That’s because what most people think of as “LOVE” is nothing more than a feeling. Something you “experience.” An abstraction. You’ll know it when you feel it. And, oh yeah, without love, you cannot be happy.
This is a corruption of what love really is. Love is not an abstract noun…an ephemeral feeling. An experience like an intoxicating drug that is somehow sold to us as THE key to human beings achieving perpetual bliss.
Nope.
Love is a verb.
You can only receive true love by doing it yourself to people worthy of it…by loving people who will love you back. It cannot be forced, nor can it be something you do expecting it in return. And it doesn’t only apply to marriages or “romantic” relationships. True friendships are founded on the exact same principle.
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