Yoshie -- the concept of dependence is about hierarchy -- something leans on, hangs from etc, is defined entirely by because it presumes the existence of something else
attachment does not mean that
would you disagree?
> Human beings as created through the process of socialization of
> labor
> depend upon the existence of other human beings whom we do not
> even
> know personally, much less to whom we feel "attached."
By attachment I did not mean affection. But I did mean something wioth more potential for intensity than 'connection'.
>Your life
> depends upon workers you have & will never meet. Your life also
> depends upon the biological & historical evolution of human beings
> --
> the work of human beings in the past whose legacy -- good, bad, &
> ugly -- you have inherited.
dependence is not the only way of conceiving of this set of relations
Catherine