Only geographically did Columbus discover a new world.
John Dewey
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John Dewey was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer. He was one of the most prominent American scholars in the first half of the twentieth century.
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And without abiding attachments associations are too shifting and shaken to permit a public readily to locate and identify itself.
Acceleration of mobility disturbs them at their root.
For these are bred in tranquil stability; they are nourished in constant relationships.
The very things which stimulate and intensify affections may undermine attachments.
But attachment requires something more than organic causes.
Only deep issues or those which can be made to appear such can find a common denominator among all the shifting and unstable relationships.
How can a public be organized, we may ask, when literally it does not stay in place?
The mania for motion and speed is a symptom of the restless instability of social life, and it operates to intensify the causes from which it springs.
The newer forces have created mobile and fluctuating associational forms.
The thing to be remembered is that this cheapened and multiplied access to amusement is the product of the machine age, intensified by the business tradition which causes provision of means for an enjoyable passing of time to be one of the…
Let there be introduced the topic of the mechanism and accomplishment of various makes of motor cars or the respective merits of actresses, and the dialogue goes on at a lively pace.