Say you have a city councilman who lives next door. Or maybe he lives next door. That’s the weird thing: you never actually meet him. You’ve seen the councilman written about in the papers and you’ve seen the billboards at election time touting the many outstanding things he’s done for your family and community. The councilman himself apparently exists. But is he really living next door?
Maybe, from time to time, you think you catch a glimpse of him in the house through a window. Maybe, now and then, you think you see his car speeding away from your street, but you never see it while it’s pulling out of his driveway. Is the councilman, whom you’ve read about but have never seen for sure, really your neighbor?