*I’m an atomized individual, my truth is my own, I do me, and you do you, we are not connected by any relation, our actions do have any impact on the world, the state is an abstract concept* *We are a collective species, we are the truth, there is no you, only we, our actions are not any persons, collective action is all that shapes the world, there is only the state.” Reality is stuck in between two absurd extremes. Yes, it’s hard. Yes, it’s mysterious. Yes, it requires judgment and we will get things wrong sometimes. But that’s being human.