Our identity and thus our individuality only arise through influence and confrontation with other people. However, we also influence others. From a network research perspective, we could also modify the claim and say that the individual arises through the intersection of social circles (according to Simmel 1908). The fact that we see ourselves as individuals is a product of modernity, which is characterized by the fact that the relationship structures changed. In pre-modern times, individuals as we know them today did not exist. People lived in the place where they were born (at least that’s the idealized view behind it). However, this view lacks quite a bit. The systematic exceptions that already existed at that time, such as long-distance trade, which already in the Middle Ages led to very far-reaching relationships, are not taken into account. This also includes the division of inheritance, which forced part of the population to leave their homeland. Perhaps the mechanism triggered by wars, which also stirred up the population at that time, was even greater. Perhaps we don’t need to draw the contrast so sharply, it is enough if we state that the number of circles in which we move has increased significantly on average since then.