Recent, immediate politics bearing on the agency here aside, we like to philosophically separate ourselves from the government in discourse, rather than seeing

Recent, immediate politics bearing on the agency here aside, we like to philosophically separate ourselves from the government in discourse, rather than seeing it as one part of our own, singular, cohesive society. see also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Sense_(pamphlet) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Sense_(pamphlet) etc.