The Shame of Being a Function of Other People

Jonathan Safran Foer: The modern idea of the individual exacerbates this sort of human constancy. He says it is much more shameful for us to be a function of other people than an enlightened night individual who can just use reason and sort things out. "There's a historical change about how legitimate we conceive ourselves to be when we think about ourselves as a function of another person"

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