John Dewey: “The public is so confused and eclipsed that it cannot even use the…”

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The public is so confused and eclipsed that it cannot even use the organs through which it is supposed to mediate political action and polity.

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John Dewey

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This statement reflects Dewey's concern about the public's confusion and disconnection from political processes.

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Ideas which are not communicated, shared, and reborn in expression are but soliloquy, and soliloquy is but broken and imperfect thought.

But the wingèd words of conversation in immediate intercourse have a vital import lacking in the fixed and frozen words of written speech.

The problem of securing diffused and seminal intelligence can be solved only in the degree in which local communal life becomes a reality.

Publication is partial and the public which results is partially informed and formed until the meanings it purveys pass from mouth to mouth.

John Dewey: “The public is so confused and eclipsed that it cannot even use the organs through which it is supposed to mediate…”