When these consequences are intellectually and emotionally appreciated, a shared interest is generated and the nature of the interconnected behavior is thereby transformed.
John Dewey: “When these consequences are intellectually and emotionally appreciated, a shared interest is generated and the nature of…”
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Dewey discusses how shared understanding transforms the nature of interconnected behaviors.
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Publication is partial and the public which results is partially informed and formed until the meanings it purveys pass from mouth to mouth.
Systematic and continuous inquiry into all the conditions which affect association and their dissemination in print is a precondition of the creation of a true public.
Ideas which are not communicated, shared, and reborn in expression are but soliloquy, and soliloquy is but broken and imperfect thought.
Competition will continue, but it will be less rivalry for acquisition of material goods, and more an emulation of local groups to enrich direct experience with appreciatively enjoyed intellectual and artistic wealth.