I've said this a lot but I'm going to say it again This is like the textbook definition of commodity fetishismhttps://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1244691048237895680 …
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I have special interests, so I can 100% understand geeking out over books as objects with a rich history independent of their content, but people do seem to confuse those things far too often
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Replying to @AmeliaRoseWrite @arthur_affect
You're a rare breed. Books is almost always a synecdoche for their content, at least for me. I guess it could also stand in for the community of readers and/or writers.
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Replying to @Tuplet @AmeliaRoseWrite
I mean, I'm not talking about physical books vs text, by "fetishism" I mean being loyal to the product and not the people who make it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AmeliaRoseWrite
I hardly think about creators but I'd hardly call it a fetish. Even so I'm almost always on their side. There's more going on here.
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Replying to @Tuplet @AmeliaRoseWrite
"Fetishism" isn't used in the sexual sense here, it means confusing things for people (a "fetish" as in a religion icon, an inanimate object you believe is inhabited by a spirit)
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It means saying things like "The market destroyed 20,000 jobs" as opposed to "A bunch of bosses fired 20,000 people", it's about letting the way commerce hides people behind a curtain let you forget that all this stuff is interactions between human beings
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It's how you get away with saying things like "Jeff Bezos loves books, he's pro-book, he put more books in more homes than anyone else" rather than "Jeff Bezos got rich fucking over the people who make books so he could lower prices for the people who buy them"
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