Arthur C. Brooks argues that romantic love is collapsing and we need to treat it as a scientific crisis, not a sentimental one. He says the decline of intimate relationships raises a fundamental question: whether life is worth living. Brooks calls for rigorous research into the deep physics of romantic love.
What's the one thing we're not talking about that we should be? I think that the story of our civilization today is the lack of romantic love. I think that the lack of relationships, this is not a sentimental issue, this is an existential issue that we're actually getting in here. And I think that we need to have a better scientific understanding of what exactly is happening and what's going to happen. This is not just demography. This is the question of whether life is actually worth living going forward and not whether life is going to continue going forward. So that's what I think we should talk about more, which is the deep physics of romantic love.
