Greed and love, how different we feel about these two concepts! However, this may be just two statements of the same desire.
One theory proceeds from the standpoint of those who are already possessed, in whom desire has become static and only worries about "possessing things"; Another version starts from the standpoint of the insatiable and eager, so beautify it as "good." Isn't our fraternity a desire for new possessions: is the same true of our love of knowledge, our love of truth, and our pursuit of novelties?
It is only because we are slowly tired of the old, the things we already possess, that we reach out to grab the new. Even in a place with great scenery, we no longer love it for three months, and somewhere near the seafront stimulates our greed. Possession is reduced by possession. Our interest in ourselves is always maintained because of the variety of this interest in us, which is also called possession. Once we are tired of possessives, we are also tired of ourselves. (People may also suffer from possessing too much, discarding or distributing possessions to others, which can be crowned with the name of "love.") When we see someone suffering, we are happy to take advantage of the opportunity to seize his possessions, just as the philanthropists and sympathizers do—he calls the desire to acquire new possessions "love," and he rejoices in them, just as he rejoices in a new possession that is about to succeed.
The love of generations is most clearly expressed in the pursuit of possession. The lover always wants to possess the woman he desires absolutely, and he also wants to have absolute power over her soul and body, he wants to be loved alone, to reside and rule in the soul of a woman as the supreme and most desired person. This really means excluding all people from precious beauty, happiness and pleasure. This lover aims to impoverish other lovers, to make himself the master of the treasury, to become an unscrupulous and selfish man in the ranks of "conquerors" and exploiters, to whom others are dispensable, pale and worthless, ready to make sacrifices, to disturb order, and to disregard the interests of others. In view of this, people can't help but wonder how this crazy sexual greed and obedience have been so glorified and sanctified in history that the concept of love that people get from it is actually that love and selfishness are opposites. In fact, this love is synonymous with genuine selfishness. For this statement, the people who have nothing and those who aspire to have it also have quite a few words; And those who were satisfied by the gift of many possessions in love, such as Sophreus, the most beloved and beloved of all the Athenians, sometimes cursed the "crazy devil" of love, but Eros, the god of love, laughed at this blasphemer at all times—it was they who had always been the greatest darling of the god of love.
Of course, there is a continuation of love everywhere in the world. In continuation, the longings of two men point to another new longing, to a common higher goal, the ideal that sits above them. But who is familiar with this kind of love? Who has ever experienced this kind of love? Its correct name is Friendship.
