What is love?
Three guests from the Aalto community with diverse backgrounds carefully narrate their own individual experiences and feelings about love in the form of fragmented dialogue and stream of consciousness.
The podcast provides different values of love, on how to redefine our cultural norms concerning it, and how to become more open to giving and receiving love. These aspects are care, sharing, solidarity, and affection.
playlist
0:00 Fragments on what love is for different people, and bell hooks
02:19 Lion, Zoe, and Dina introduce themselves
04:09 The ethics of caring. What Lion learnt from his mother. Care in times of sickness
07:14 “Friends were my second family” “Self-love cannot flourish in isolation”
09:10 Ira Byock’s story about the basis of a community, and civilization
10:54 Serving others, serving community in Jamaica
11:39 Zoe’s dream community: Polyamorous chosen family vs. community
12:49 Dina’s family in Ukraine during the war
14:15 “Abuse and neglect negate love”… “Everything is upside down in Russia”
16:08 Discovery of polyamory: Compersion, the opposite of jealousy
19:19 Love towards friends / Love towards partners / Love towards strangers
20:31 Cooking and teaching as forms of love
21:15 Rasta love is universal love. Standing in love, choosing love
Guests:
Lion Waterhouse, Diana Lisitsa, Irina (Zoe) Valeeva
Hosts:
Heta-Maria Pyhäjärvi, Jihae Kim
Special thanks to Long Nghiem and Anne-Marja Pokka for their earlier participation in the Conversation Room, and to Kamilla, Kristin and Villis for their help with the intro audio voiceover.
