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RE: The Capitalism In Our Relationships
I would have to force myself to see a person as a commodity, however valuable, but that might be just a matter of definition or simple reluctance to use economic terms for anything that is truly interesting. But to each his own.
His second book, with an overlapping theme, is called Les Particules élémentaires, equally hard-hitting, to me at least. And no, I have no shares in his publisher 8-).
I agree this is a problem mostly of definition. What we end up loving in other people is the values we aspire. In a way we reflect on an empty shell and assign value. This is how they become so dear to us. In a way it is an elaborate act of masturbation. Rarely anybody enjoys the act but we all enjoy its outcome. At the end it is the raw instinctual consumption of someone else much like food. We devour their subjectiveness and then extrude what is not needed.