The thing to be remembered is that this cheapened and multiplied access to amusement is the product of the machine age, intensified by the business tradition which causes provision of means for an enjoyable passing of time to be one of the most profitable of occupations.
Dewey critiques the commodification of leisure activities in the machine age, emphasizing their profitability.
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In this distinction we find the germ of the distinction between the private and the public.
Personal loyalties to elders take the place of political obedience.
The easiest way out was to go back to the naked individual, to sweep away all associations as foreign to his nature and rights save as they proceeded from his own voluntary choice, and guaranteed his own private ends.
But this conclusion is an obvious invitation to trial of forces to see where superior force lies.