hooks cautions against the instant gratification of greed which is nothing compared to the gratification of love which requires time, energy, and emotional investment.Ī culture of materialism and greed also leads to the dehumanization of. hooks then connects this psychological anguish to the rise of addiction, which makes love impossible. Other factors including the Watergate scandal and the decline in influence of religion led to moral disillusionment and a rise in capitalist greed. In eleven concise chapters, hooks explains how our everyday notions of what it means to give and receive love often fail us, and how these ideals are established in early childhood. Society turns away from a belief in the power of community and connection and turned instead toward a materialistic, consumerist, and capitalist ethos. All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our private and public lives. She focuses on romantic love and believes that in American culture men have been socialized to mistrust. Hooks combines personal anecdotes as well as psychological and philosophical ideas to develop and strengthen her argument. She writes that the failure of radical social justice movements in the 1960s and 1970s and the impact of the Vietnam war led to both personal and cultural despair. All About Love: New Visions is a book by Bell Hooks published in 2000 that discusses aspects of love in modern society. Chapter 7: Many people feel isolated and lonely, which hooks sees as a consequence of materialism and narcissism.
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