It may be urged that the present confusion and apathy are due to the fact that the real energy of society is now directed in all non-political matters by trained specialists who manage things, while politics are carried on with a machinery and ideas formed in the past to deal with quite another sort of situation.
Dewey critiques the disconnect between modern societal needs and outdated political frameworks.
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Publication is partial and the public which results is partially informed and formed until the meanings it purveys pass from mouth to mouth.
That and that only gives reality to public opinion.
If the technological age can provide mankind with a firm and general basis of material security, it will be absorbed in a humane age.
Vision is a spectator; hearing is a participator.