They may think they are clamoring for a purely personal liberty, but what they are doing is to bring into being a greater liberty to share in other associations, so that more of their individual potentialities will be released and their personal experience enriched.
Dewey suggests that the pursuit of personal liberty can lead to greater collective freedom and enriched experiences.
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If the technological age can provide mankind with a firm and general basis of material security, it will be absorbed in a humane age.
Signs and symbols, language, are the means of communication by which a fraternally shared experience is ushered in and sustained.
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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.