Okay. So here’s what I’ve been wondering (and then what I found):
Why did we all decide that this ♥️ represented a heart? I mean… it bears a little bit of resemblance to an actual heart 🫀, but not really enough for it to make sense to me…
So I looked it up.
The best working theory is that is comes from the shape of the Silphium plant’s seedpod.
The Silphium plant was the famous plant with contraceptive properties that the Greeks and Romans used as birth control so much that they literally used up the plant into extinction.
The symbol for love comes from a plant that was used to stop procreation and which ultimately became extinct from overuse.
I think you can take the moral of this story as “love conquers all”.
Or perhaps more fully: “love will take your ridiculous symbol of it, your attempt to stop it, and make you so f*ckbunny that you wipe out the very thing you tried to use to stop it".
In this Ted Talk, I will....
