"To be human, we could say, is to desire the kingdom--some kingdom. To call it a "kingdom" is to signal that we're not talking only about some personal, private Eden--some individual nirvana--but that we all live and long for a social vision of what we think society should look like too. That's why there's something ultimate about this vision: to be oriented toward some sense of the good life is to pursue some vision of how the world ought to be."