John Dewey: “The increase in the number, variety and cheapness of amusements represents a powerful diversion from political concern.”

Nothing better exhibits the scope of the movement than the fact that philosophic theories of knowledge made the same appeal to the self, or ego, in the form of personal consciousness identified with mind itself, that political theory made…

But he does so only at the cost of repression of those of his potentialities which can be realized only through membership in other groups.

In this distinction we find the germ of the distinction between the private and the public.

The foe to be dreaded is interference of government.