The scope of the latter’s activities was so vast and their impact upon face-to-face associations so pervasive and unremitting that it is no exaggeration to speak of “a new age of human relations.” The Great Society created by steam and electricity may be a society, but it is no community.
Dewey describes the profound impact of new technologies on human relations, distinguishing society from community.
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There are even those who hold that the presumption is always that social loss will result from agents of the public doing anything which could be done by persons in their private capacity.
If one wishes to realize the distance which may lie between “facts” and the meaning of facts, let one go to the field of social discussion.
Is the public much more than what a cynical diplomat once called Italy: a geographical expression?
But it indicates where the problem resides, whatever guise it assumes.