Evils which are uncritically and indiscriminately laid at the door of industrialism and democracy might, with greater intelligence, be referred to the dislocation and unsettlement of local communities.
Dewey argues that many issues attributed to industrialism and democracy should be linked to the disruption of local communities.
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Signs and symbols, language, are the means of communication by which a fraternally shared experience is ushered in and sustained.
Ideas which are not communicated, shared, and reborn in expression are but soliloquy, and soliloquy is but broken and imperfect thought.
The problem of securing diffused and seminal intelligence can be solved only in the degree in which local communal life becomes a reality.
But the wingèd words of conversation in immediate intercourse have a vital import lacking in the fixed and frozen words of written speech.