It started when somebody, probably trying to make /b/ feel lonely, posted "hey /b/, what's it like to be loved by someone"

And yet, a couple interesting points were brought up. The opinion on /b/ seems to be that real love is forgotten in today's society, and people are simply mistaking lust for love. According to 4chan, "love is dead." And yet a couple posters noted the "neo-hippie" trend among politically active youth, e.g.:

>Anonymous 04/22/07(Sun)01:17:57 No.25127134
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>that doesn't even matter to me. It's enough for me that >people are happy.
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> I was at an anti-war protest in Seattle the other day. I >saw a girl holding a sign that said "free hugs." I saw the >supposedly apathetic "ipod generation" marching in the >footsteps of the past generation, following the ideals their >parents had once held and abandoned. Signs that said "make >love, not war." Students sitting in circles in the field, a 17 >year old kid sitting on a truck strumming guitar. And I saw the >potential for a glorious future
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> Perhaps it was reaction to the loosening of society in the >past, but we've become increasingly uptight. "Love" in the >2000s is a series of plots and counter-plots. I don't think >this is how things are meant to be, and I don't think we can >keep starving ourselves in this way.
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> Let the "uptight 0's" give way to the wild 1s!

What's /love/'s take on this? Is /love/ dead? Are hippies resurgent? What the hell DOES love mean in western society today?