Agency makes you stand out from the background but can also join you together with things around you.

Agency makes you stand athwart the entropy pulling towards background noise.

It goes uphill.

It separates you from the things around you, you stick your neck out.

But if others also go in a similar direction as you, if you stand out of the background noise together, then you merge together, by standing out from the rest together.

When people see independent things moving coherently, they assume they are actually one thing, and treat them accordingly.