Now, the truth assaults us at every turn: raise any issue of even
passing social significance, and watch the internet split us down the middle and degenerate into snark and acrimony.
Hegel tended always to make the individual a mere
passing - point, a moment, in the cosmic process, and to insist on the individual's gaining his concrete ethical
significance through being identified with the
social, religious, and political institutions of his time.