CHe will be sentimental relationships when artificial intelligence, it seems very soon, have found the perfect sex formula? When we no longer need a person to satisfy our appetite, what will push us to want and enjoy, how we do now? Wanting to have children, you will say. Of course, until this too will think of an automatic machine, in which to insert seed or eggs, to obtain, after nine months, the mechanical birth of a nice baby.
And love? The love that should “move the sun and the other stars”, love as a single key to the synthesis between two people, has already shown its limits. Let me explain: For centuries, the couplings have been dictated by reasons of perpetuation of the species and specially combined, without the need for love. Sentimental relationships, as a unique basis for marriage, coexistence or simple relationship, are a modern invention.
To the ideal of love or ideal love we universally attribute today the origin of many separations: When the feeling ends, if there is nothing more to unite the couple, children or economic interests, everything ends. This is why it is said that love is overrated or that “it is eternal … until it lasts”.
Antonella Baccaro (photo by Carlo Vangeri Gilbert).
Now, If even sex becomes a variable completely independent of loveif it were a well -found good in nature, much more satisfying than the porn movie that today works as a pale alternative, love, this love already so discontinuous and fragile, would be exclusively an antidote to solitude.
Provided that virtual reality does not complete the process we are already witnessing, replacing it with a fakeand thus avoiding the disappointments and humiliations of real life.
Starting from the effort of an approach and a courtship to end with the commitment of the construction of a love that, to put it with Fossati “breaks the veins of the hands” and “does not repay the pain”. Slowly the artificiality is already unbalanced us to the onerous and daily exercise of empathy: the true magical glue of human relationships. Fossati continues: «And all this is surprised/ so much so that if it ended now/ I know I would ask/ that I collapsed on me. Yes”.
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