In Defence of Stupidity; on Love and Valentine’s Day
By Jeremy Fernando | March 15th, 2009 | Category: Issue 3, On Cultural Life | No Comments »Every year, on the fourteenth day of February, one is bound to hear numerous complaints from just about everyone (besides florists) about how Valentine’s Day is mere commercialism. Whichever side they come from – and whichever variation of the arguments they choose – it all boils down to this: they are decrying the fact that relationships have moved from the private to the public sphere. The underlying logic is that love is between two persons only and should remain between them; love should remain an unmediated experience between the two persons in that relationship.
