I have been open about how I used to be more Left-leaning, which I think tends to be somewhat common in your youth. When you’re young, you don’t have a firm grasp on how the world works, and the Left is really great at selling their ideas. One that took hold of me in my liberal past was the concept of modern love. I finally woke up to the fact that “modern love” is a lie. In reality, no one is happy in this type of relationship.
The New York Times publishes a weekly column titled Modern Love, written by readers who share their “modern love” stories about how they are bucking traditional love — because they’re doing love differently. A few recent headlines include My Spectacular Betrayal, Deeply in Love With a Polyamorous Woman, and Kissing a Fellow Janitor Amid the Trash. You get the idea. They are all written as glamorized aspirational tales with happy endings. The implied message is that modern love is freeing: “Why have the natural traditional marriage when you can have something that is different!” But what these articles are actually promoting is narcissism: “I can live my life as I want to! I should be able to give into my every impulse.” Yet readers never get an update as to how this modern love worked out. How does that work out in the long run?
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