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Indirect, extensive, enduring and serious consequences of conjoint and interacting behavior call a public into existence having a common interest in controlling these consequences.
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John Dewey
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Dewey explains how collective behavior creates a public with shared interests in managing consequences.
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Signs and symbols, language, are the means of communication by which a fraternally shared experience is ushered in and sustained.
But the wingèd words of conversation in immediate intercourse have a vital import lacking in the fixed and frozen words of written speech.
We lie, as Emerson said, in the lap of an immense intelligence.
That and that only gives reality to public opinion.