What is everywhere and yet nowhere at the same time?

Democracy

I think Sebastian, therefore I am

 "Matter in Descartes had become an inert oppressive presence, doing its job in a reliable robotlike way but surrounding and confronting us with its essential lifelessness everywhere we look -- even in the eyes of our favorite pets."

 

- Quoted from: The Cave and the Light: Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization