Industry and inventions in technology, for example, create means which alter the modes of associated behavior and which radically change the quantity, character and place of impact of their indirect consequences.
Dewey highlights the transformative impact of industry and technology on social behavior and political consequences.
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The democratic public is still largely inchoate and unorganized.
There was no logic which rendered necessary the appeal to the individual as an independent and isolated being.
The local communities without intent or forecast found their affairs conditioned by remote and invisible organizations.
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.