We cannot wish away the rules of the fifth dimension, any more than we can wish away gravity or entropy. It is when we accept the tensions and clashes, and navigate courageously among them, that we become free people and help others to become so. Simone Weil wrote that our task was to see the clash among virtues for what it is, and to make it as easy for one another to handle as we can. This purpose is served by the forms of freedom. They are the justification of government, and the outlines of a good one.
