Reply #17: i didn't call him a fetishist. neither did the article. it said self-sufficiency is a fetish of [View All]

[Hannah Bell]

american culture.

you are thinking in terms of laying around & letting other people work for you. that's not the contrast being made in this article. the article is saying essentially the same thing i am: there is no self-sufficiency, we need others to survive, & our living is produced by socialized labor. if we had to produce our living entirely by our own individual efforts we'd be eating bugs.

laying back & letting others work for you is what capitalists do.

btw, there's no sexual connotation whatsoever to this use of "fetish," in case you were thinking there was.