Our modern state-unity is due to the consequences of technology employed so as to facilitate the rapid and easy circulation of opinions and information, and so as to generate constant and intricate interaction far beyond the limits of face-to-face communities.
Dewey discusses how modern technology has transformed the nature of political unity and communication.
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Freedom presented itself as an end in itself, though it signified in fact liberation from oppression and tradition.
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.
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.