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Love in the age of fluid modernity

Manifestations of fluid modernity

By Ibrahim IshagPublished 3 years ago 3 min read

The most important patterns through which liquid modernity appeared in the era of globalization, is the commodification of the body and “liquidity” that has been hierarchically hierarchical until entering the family home. Anything that might fall into one's hands should immediately enjoy, for who knows what the future might bring? Thus, gratification has lost its aura and attractiveness, so one does not feel safe from the benefits of the work and effort that he invests today while he is heading towards reaching the reward; Gains can be losses in the blink of an eye, joyous rewards can become disgrace, fashions come and go with dizzying speed and all objects of desire move at an erratic pace, and, unfortunately, the word has become "disgusting" for nothing louder than pleasure.

Today's pure and innocent ways of life have become the object of ridicule.

Zygmunt Baumann, a Polish sociologist, attributes this humility to many things, such as the state of absolute fluidity in which we live in this era, and the old solid concepts have changed, as if another kind of "little boy" has exploded to control fragility in the joints of spontaneous and emotional life. It also monitors the formulas for searching for the benefit that we are accustomed to and represented the cornerstone and foundation of human relations that have changed radically. The longing to return home in a state of travel does not completely mean longing for the family, as the individual may go directly to his room, which becomes a single entity among the many entities.

The tragedy that we all live in, that tragedy is summed up in the transition from solidity to fluidity, from authenticity to transitory relationship, Baumann seeks to understand the nature of the “sociological situation” in which our societies live and here wants to show the manifestations of fluid modernity in self-awareness and personal choices, and instead of “relationships.” Baumann used "connections and connections", as he sees that "relationships" are a deep description that reflects complex and complex social choices that have a price in a cohesive society, while the person of fluid modernity decides that he does not want to pay the costs, invest time, or sacrifice in order to obtain advantages. Social communication, and in light of the growing fluidity in everything around it, and the transformation of "society" into a mere "human gathering", this human being has turned from the clarity of "social" relations to the ambiguity of relationships

Baumann says, “Lust and love are brothers, and sometimes they give birth to twins, but they cannot be identical.” Desire (which represents most relationships in our time) is the craving for consumption, not for desire except for gratification, devouring, swallowing and digestion, while love is care and care, it is a force that expands And beyond the limits of lust and the desire for gratification, a power that absorbs the self in the subject and not the other way around.

From a man without qualities, as Robert Musil described "Ulrich" the hero of his novel, to a man without ties, described by Zygmunt Baumann, the hero of his book, this hero embodies the tragedy that we all live in, that tragedy is also represented in the transition from love under the slogan "We date only death" to Love under the slogan "desire and security" from sex linked to reproduction to produce individuals and building society to sex separated from reproduction aimed at satisfying desire only, from compassionate relationships to contractual relationships, from family tanning sessions to non-family chat sessions, from the moral economy that depends on the subsistence limit and guarantee from the value of human dignity to the value of survival even if dignity is insulted, from love of the other to self-love, from an environment open to all to ghost towns that prefer isolation and non-mixing, from one world in which everyone lives a decent life, To fragmented, fragile, liquid societies, from the living person to the dead person.

The tragedy that we are experiencing in this fluid moment, is that “love” has become subject to stereotyping and consumerism, which means its loss of value.

Love is to fly towards a hidden sky and from the depths of your heart you can touch the sky

I have no companion but love... A path without beginning or end
Comrade calls there:
What stops you when life is fraught with dangers

If you have a soul,,, count it... Tell her to come back with one word
Where did we come from (Ibn Al-Rumi).

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