Dependence, Self-Reliance, Mutual Trust

In some contexts, to 'depend on' means to 'be subordinate to', while in others, it means to 'trust'.  Now, typically implicit in the latter cases is mutuality, i. e. while a Me-They relation, e. g. child-parent, is one of subordination, I-We is constituted by reciprocal trustworthiness.  Furthermore, what usually distinguishes the two concatenations is the emergence of self-reliance, which grounds the reliance of one's allies on one.  Thus, Self-Reliance that stops short of a development of I-We relations remains a stunted phase of independence, e. g. when one trusts oneself to provide sustenance, but lacks any social skills.  So, to the extent that Modern Philosophy either does not or cannot derive from Cartesian Self-Reliance any Social Theory, it remains in a condition of arrested development, as does the radical Individual of American mythology.