Love is not blind

The people of many tribes and ancient pre-Columbian civilizations, as today thousands of men and women in many places around the world, behave under the influence of external forces, under the watchful eye of spirits that condition events that are happening in their lives. West always looked askance at this kind of place in the world, but soon realized that another foreign force invade their reality: the metaphor of love as a social priority.
Each culture redirects his thoughts but also feelings. That is why affective experiences, developed with different strategies, different requirements, either to create similar feelings. He even the fact that there are cultures that externalize their distress prohibit internal or palpitations.
Keep in mind that the reality we are also presented as the mode through which things affect us. From trial to evaluate our position with our environment. The reality is, therefore filtered from the world of values.
Faced with the love we can show an excessive interest and clouding of mood and euphoria to experience the enjoyment of pleasure. But we can be indifferent ... "Indifference movements away from the heart impetuous desires great, the blind inclinations. Indifference is not intended but the tranquility of the soul, does not exclude the sensitivity, but prevents disturb this tranquility. Indifference kills the passions of man ... ".
Indifference born perhaps in response to the tragedies that led to this invention we call love, and we can escape or avoid removing the source of desire.
In the brain sensory information and messages are the nervous system that, when combined, indicate that emotion is occurring. The ability to feel that emotion can be altered and can invent or annihilate that agitation or commotion that are easily seen in our face.
A small tribe of hunter-gatherers in a mountainous region of Uganda sowed confusion among some anthropologists to find that after living with them, the Ik, as they are called, had lost their capacity to love.
Three generations of famine and drought, driven from their land and sent to dry and barren mountains and the valleys of the moon made it possible to leave the love, and other so-called virtues (hospitality, generosity, etc.). Because they could not afford . Simply a matter of economics. Anyone who failed to take care of itself was a burden and a risk to the survival of others.
This is a story that reveals the tragedy. Love is not a necessity but a luxury, an invention. In this case, an expenditure of energy. Because exposed to certain hardships, the ability to love can be eliminated.
It seems so, that we "programmed" emotionally. We will have to go looking for love with computer skills.