Love means never having to say you're sorry

But what kind of love?

Michael D. Shaw Dec 10, 2023 @ Mike's Point of View

Many readers will recognize the title of this piece as a famous line from the movie “Love Story” (1970). The line occurs twice in the film. In the first instance, Oliver (Ryan O’Neal) is running around Cambridge, MA near the Harvard campus looking for girlfriend Jenny (Ali MacGraw) after an argument. He starts to apologize for what had happened earlier, but she stops him with the “Love means…” line.

In the second instance, Oliver encounters his father (Ray Milland) at the front door of the hospital, where Jenny has just died of cancer. When the father finds out, he says “I’m sorry,” only to be hit with the same “Love means…” bromide.

“Love means…” has been mocked endlessly, including by O’Neal himself in the movie “What’s Up, Doc?” (1972). Even within “Love Story,” the two contexts are wildly dissimilar. In the first, Jenny is reassuring Oliver that their love is so great that no indiscretion is worthy of an apology, since all will be forgiven anyway. In the second, the father is saying that he is sorry to hear that Jenny has died, and this in no way is seeking an apology.

In the context of this essay, we are looking at deliberate acts, sometimes with devastating consequences, often known at the time to be harmful, inflicted on us by our “leaders.” Don’t hold your breath for an apology from them, or even a harsh word from the sycophantic media.

At the top of most lists would be the catastrophic handling of COVID-19 by essentially all official agencies. Approvals were rushed for a drastically flawed “vaccine” that neither prevented infection nor transmission. To ensure its Emergency Use Authorization, drug therapies such as hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin were brutally suppressed. Coincidentally, the killer drug Remdesivir was inflicted on patients.

While respirators were sought after in the initial stages of the pandemic, their use proved to be problematic—to say the least. Indeed, a YouTube video attesting to their dangers garnered millions of views its first few days, until it was removed by the fascist censors of that video streaming platform. The lack of concern over pregnant women and children regarding the vaccine was unprecedented.

Not only have there been no apologies over this appalling public health groupthink, what few voices that have emerged have been more along the lines of “We did our best, don’t blame us.”

Second on most lists of outrages demanding an apology would be the ridiculous and dangerous environment of antisemitism that exists on many college campuses. Recently, the presidents of Harvard, MIT, and Penn were called before Congress, and their performances were pathetic. So imbued were they with Marxism, and its ludicrous philosophy of reducing everything to a struggle between the Oppressor and the Victim, that they could not bring themselves to even condemn calls for genocide of Jews.

Oh yes, half-hearted non-apology apologies did come after massive amounts of funding was withdrawn, but that will not be enough to save the jobs of these no-talent clowns. Still, given the world of academia, there is no guarantee at all that anyone better will replace them.

And, it must be said that the silence is absolutely deafening from so many liberal Jews who stood idly by—if they weren’t cheering—as these institutions shifted ever leftward, only now to express dismay as to what has “suddenly” occurred. Why, they’re shocked…shocked!

Don’t hold your breath waiting for any official apologies. no matter the outrage, and we could easily count up dozens more (the open border, maybe?). Love means never having to say you’re sorry, especially if it’s self-love and narcissism, present in incredibly large amounts among most of our leadership class.