The Death of Eros

The transition from Michelle and Barack to Donald and Melania has been more than just a change of individuals. I miss the affection they modeled for us so well. As lovers they inspired me. For eight years we lived with a couple who loved each other, completed each other, desired each other, and now we have something very different, something very ugly. And we often understand God through the process of mimesis , through mimicry, through symbol. The First Family models for us a way of being in relationship with each other and also, perhaps, with something more transcendent, with God. We have shifted from an affectionate, playful model to a coercive, commodity model. We have watched Eros die. And we are angry about it.

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The Death of Eros is an episode from Meditations by Ian White Maher: Praise | Gratitude | Joy | Transformation by Ian White Maher.

This episode is 8:38 long.

This episode was published on Nov 21, 2017.

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