We, the people, in the minutiae of our most private interests, want then, as a collective of those interests, things to be collectively wrong, somehow.
Collective nouns represent collections or groups of things.
That Beyonce can't feel the same way about her society husband probably speaks to our collective view on lots of things (celebrity marriages, beautiful women, female performers, the list goes on).
Maritime museums look back, typically through the prism of a collection of artifacts, at the meaning of things, actions, and collective history; through ephemera, objects, paintings, boats and ships, museums illustrate and argue for the significance of the exchange via the sea of goods, people and ideas.
(As the writer Pixie Casey tweeted, "Racist Atticus Finch and Midlife Crisis Kermit are exactly what we deserve for our collective inability to let go of things").
"When you've got this great creative collective of people, really amazing things can happen sometimes in your apartment at midnight," he said.
A nation, in other words, is about belonging – to a specific place that is not quite like another place, and to a collective of people you share things with.
They were thrilled "to become part of this collective of vendors doing wonderful things," said Nicola Behrman. .
So there has been collective bargaining on a whole host of things, but we've been unable to get the traction necessary to resolve the fundamental issues.
Such action, or rather inaction, should make us wonder whether we have lost our collective will to be the maker of things.
