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2012: Valentines Day = My Love is Conditional

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Today is Valentine's Day. A Day we SELLebrate "our love" for another. Apparently - we need a day to do this. Kind of like Christmas and Thanksgiving where we need a day to remind ourselves to give to each other. What's fascinating is that this holiday can only be sold those that "have love"... or those that have money. This "holiday" is useless to the mass of people that are without jobs and food and homes - it's actually a slap in the face to them. Those of us in the comfortable side of the current system - those of us with money - can go around and pretend love is real through taking one day out of the year sharing our conditional love with each other. Yes - we have to buy flowers and chocolates and take each other out dinner to show that we care. That we are in love. What the fuck? This day exposes just how self abusive this world is - where those of us with money - only care about ourselves and "our love". But this Love i...