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The Politics of Love by Jason Parkinson Valentines Day is over for another year. Did you, like millions of others all across the world, traipse into novelty gift and card shops to buy cute teddy bears holding velvet red hearts, red roses - real and fake - gold chains and rings? Or diamonds, the ultimate way to prove your love, right?
And cards. Big ones, musical ones, cards with badges and huge fluffy red hearts. But forget about trying to buy a Valentines Day card made from recycled paper. Are you kidding me? A card to prove your love made from second-hand paper. Man, how cheap are you? But what about love for our planet? Call the police, we got one of them hippies on the premises. They might be dangerous. Smelly too.
Well, here is a seemingly novel idea, as promoted by those from the group O-I-L (Operation Infinite Love). Don’t prove your love with expensive gifts that will probably end up in a cardboard box in six months time, rammed behind the water tank in a cupboard. No, prove your love with LOVE. That was the message on Saturday 11 February down at Piccadilly Circus, under the watchful gaze of the Eros statue, son of Aphrodite and god of love.
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