This was really well-written, and I found myself nodding while reading. I wish people would differentiate lust from love (how can people "make love"? I abhor that phrase...). Love as a word is so overrated and overused, yet the concept itself could benefit from more reevaluation.

this is really well written. i like all of the questions in the first few paragraphs.
I will add it to my favorites.

i wrote a little rant of my own quite like this one a while back. but yes, i agree! love is dead. we've all thrown away our ideas of being socially polite and being good, upright citizens for being **, hoes, bastards, and everyone's favorite **. what happened to society? well... it ain't all love and peace anymore, is it. things got harder. it isn't the Gilded Age, with all the golden illusions and "a car in every garage, a chicken in every oven" deal, or however that went. people are homeless, people are hungry and it's real and we can't shut it out anymore because the media's got it down 24/7. and really, everyone's trying to make us care but the real deal is... the real deal is that we as a society just don't give a ** anymore. we're jaded, we're blase, and just too overexposed to care about all the soldiers in Iraq, all the victims in Darfur or all the hungry, starving, malnutritioned children in some third world country that's only famous for such. WE DON'T CARE! and sadly, no amount of pushing, shoving, nagging or budging in any kind of form will change our current view. i mean, don't get me wrong, we want to care, and some of us pretend to - wearing those "Save Darfur" tees, selling items for cancer research, donating to kids in Africa who don't have enough money for education. we try to care. it doesn't work. the amount of caring we've had throughout the years has exponentially decreased each and every year. we can blame it on the industrial revolution, sure. i mean, it just served to make us more lazy, alienated, and disassociated with one another. we can blame it on religion for not pushing us to care about other people we don't even know. who knows? all we know now is the cure still remains unknown. will there ever be a cure? my guess: probably no. it'll just keep getting worse and worse. and we'll just keep on being nonchalant. besides, love never really made the world go round. the world can function without love. we'll just be unhappy.

but i do disagree on one point. i think love is pretty complicated. i mean, opening up completely to another person, giving them your all and caring about them with the same intensity, without judging, grudges, or doubt in perfect humility without fail or fault? taking in and accepting all their imperfections, and loving them because of that? some people find that hard to do even for themselves. i think that's also why we as a society can't love. the world has gotten to critical and we turn inward and judge and criticize ourselves. we hate ourselves because we're not perfect like some people are televised as. we hate what we aren't and because of that, we cannot love.
that's my little blurb. :) also, in the first paragraph, the last question "Where is it society is hiding it’s love?": the 'it's' should be 'its'.

if only more people thought this way...only question i have is this: there is only so much love a person get give away at a time, eventually you run out of love, get warn out and need a rest ect...anyway

One question...what?

Your essay is a bit ambiguous. What exactly are you trying to prove? That the word is not meaningful, or that we have no love left?

Or is it a rant, because I can understand that too. But your essay makes no sense.