John Dewey: “What is significant is that access to means of amusement has been rendered easy and cheap beyond anything known in the…”

It rules but it does not regulate; for its rule is confined to receipt of tribute and ceremonial deference.

Mistakes pile up and consolidate themselves into laws and methods of administration which are more harmful than the consequences which they were originally intended to control.

The invasion of the community by the new and relatively impersonal and mechanical modes of combined human behavior is the outstanding fact of modern life.

The local communities without intent or forecast found their affairs conditioned by remote and invisible organizations.