Recently I read “All About Love” by Bell Hooks and I re-learned a lot about love especially in its cultural discourse. A lot of the reasons surrounding lovelessness are not novel to me except for the fact that I was lead to believe for a majority of my life that love could coexist with dysfunction as well as with lies. But these are misguided ideas surrounding love, and consequently, our society has found itself in a greater crisis against love. 

Bell Hooks, herself, acknowledges that the younger generations are cynical about love, that they decide to live a life in fear of love and turning firmly away from it. Her book “All About Love” was published back in 2000.