“self-love” has this frustrating marketing problem a lot of other things also have, that while in some sense it ought to refer to this broad universal thing, in practice it’s read as having an extremely narrow and specific “love and light” aesthetic many people don’t relate to
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there’s a kind of self-love you could describe as “courage” - the willingness to stand up to tyranny, even your own - and the aesthetics of that word are completely different. would attract a different crowd and nucleate a different scene
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I have been meaning to write about this! Love is not "niceness" and it's definitely not "acceptance without action". Real love is dynamic, active, sometimes raw or fierce.
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this is a big thing i really appreciate about c.s. lewis's description of aslan
"Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good."
