I’ve tweaked the chorus not to use “love” every time, with “feel” and “live” on later times through. So many songs are about love, and while this song does cover love it covers a wider range of human experience and it’s better if the chorus reflects that.
This is an anti-improvement on the semantics level. It would make sense for “philia” and “eros” senses but given other memes the sense of “agape” would be fitting. It is a error similar to “we have diversified the repetition of mathematics with occurences of geometry and analysis as the scope is wider than numbers”, which commits the error of taking mathematics to be a synonym for algebra. This obscures the concept of mathematics (as there is a namespace collision) and makes the total be a scatter of separate branches instead being an unified tree.
Yes, statistically it is unlikely to be taken in that sense and it seems an important consideration. But it is a place where perpetuating the thinning of the concept happens. As in can be quite subtle, using the remaining degrees of freedom to support a revelatory rather than obscuring closer reading benefits from using every turn it is possible.
Might be specific on how I read and project meaning. Multimeaning messages are hard to manage.
I do think that you can get from
What is love? Baby don’t hurt me. Don’t hurt me. No more
to Amor Fati (which I guess I am kind of reinterpreting as Fate of Love rather than Love of Fate)
The emotion of love is significantly different from the action or existential stance of love.
Having it be comparable with mere experiences seems like a downgrade to the narrower meaning in my ears.
Can you give it more context about what part of the post you’re responding to? I can’t tell what you want to be different.
This is an anti-improvement on the semantics level. It would make sense for “philia” and “eros” senses but given other memes the sense of “agape” would be fitting. It is a error similar to “we have diversified the repetition of mathematics with occurences of geometry and analysis as the scope is wider than numbers”, which commits the error of taking mathematics to be a synonym for algebra. This obscures the concept of mathematics (as there is a namespace collision) and makes the total be a scatter of separate branches instead being an unified tree.
FWIW the original chorus didn’t use ‘love’ every time. It was only my intermediate (in my opinion over-)simplification that did.
I don’t think most people’s immediate interpretation of ‘love’ in this context would be as broad as this?
Yes, statistically it is unlikely to be taken in that sense and it seems an important consideration. But it is a place where perpetuating the thinning of the concept happens. As in can be quite subtle, using the remaining degrees of freedom to support a revelatory rather than obscuring closer reading benefits from using every turn it is possible.
Might be specific on how I read and project meaning. Multimeaning messages are hard to manage.
I do think that you can get from
to Amor Fati (which I guess I am kind of reinterpreting as Fate of Love rather than Love of Fate)