I have a question

There are two key driven forces along human history: love and power. Adam and Eve, the Trojan war, Romeo and Julia, Ghandi, Luther King or millions of unknown life stories of migrants who moved to distant lands following their beloved would be just but a modest account of love driven actions. On the power side, wars, massacres, rapes, tortures, male domination would quickly summarise the contribution of power to move human history.

The scientific domain has approached these two forces with a completely different ways. Many professions and disciplines have contributed to enhance, sustain or countervail many forms of power and domination. Other disciplines have devoted their effort to deal with the consequences of power or to understand the logic and the mechanism that sustain and enhance power.

Instead, love has received a completely different treatment. Its creation or empowerment has been left out of the scientific domain. It belongs to what has been labelled as the spiritual one, in a short perspective the religious domain, or to the field of arts. Most spiritual approaches have love at the core of their essence. Hundreds of pages, and kilometres of canvas or films have been produced to show or express love in one way or another.

Curiously, science only deals with the consequences of the lack of love and only in rare exceptions love is the core discourse in a scientific document. Most health related sciences and some social sciences devote their efforts to deal with the consequences of unhealthy relationships and suffering.

If love is one of the engines moving the world –and most probably the most important one- then why it has been left out of the scientific domain, why the power of love is not at the core of scientific practices?