Our fragmentation runs deeper than we think. The much-praised ideal of “respect for others” represents the bare minimum of sociability. The idea that individuals can build a society solely on respect for others, reveals a striking ignorance of the fundamental conditions required for the socialization of any subject: the differentiation of social statuses, of roles within the family, and the distribution of power between individuals and the higher authorities. Yet individualization and dedifferentiation have reached profound anthropological depths, as they have unfolded throughout the long history of the West. The dissolution of grand unifying social narratives began long before what was termed the end of ideologies following WWII or the fall of the Berlin Wall. Grasping the scope of this historical shift requires thinking not in centuries but in millennia, and understanding that the West has gradually prioritized the analysis of a society’s components over its unity. In the middle of the 1st millennium BCE, the emergence of the a-semantic Greek alphabet, which made all combinations of written signs possible, was a historical step: it marked the imposition of logos over mythos. This gives a sense of the magnitude of the current shift, in which arithmos is now prevailing over logos.