Quite true. A good analogy is data. People talk about the
importance of data. Or algorithms. Or computers. But they do
nothing. They're tools with the potential to do stuff, but they
don't do stuff themselves. People make them go. They're not
autonomous. Neither is money, even if it seems to be.
Same is true for society. Or... is it?
Society is a concept. Persistent one. Seems to affect us as
individuals.
But are we individuals?
Babies born in isolation die without social contact.
We're social to the core. Proof? What are you doing right now?
Being social here on Facebook.
So societies _are_ real... but perhaps the societies that are
real are not the ones we call societies...
