But that's not where stasis is. We're not even trying to get together and do the hard work because we're not convinced that we're a "we". The hero need not do anything besides be the referent of "I'm with that person," as uttered by many different kinds of people.

Hashing out the consequences of "so transitively, I suppose I'm aligned with you now"... that's where the hard work is (solidarity, etc) but most of us aren't even considering that stage yet. We're still a bunch of smaller us's squabbling amongst ourselves--just how the powerful like it.