ROMANTIC LOVE
A European Invention
High Middle ages 1100-1300
A Status Signal
Evolved from ‘courtly love’ (platonic)
Like all things, whatever elites do, is copied.
Some relation to black death youthful population after.
Unaffordable at scale until 1800s
Problem then, is ensuring elites are constructing capital not destroying it.
Current ‘elites’ are parasites.