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Old 03-12-19, 03:24 PM
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This is what Marx would call the 'fetishism of commodities' and how objects can begin to control us by our social relations to them. It's a bike, man. Ride the bike! It's fair to be worried about breaking it, or someone stealing it, but not to the point of paralysis.
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