The fear is the more efficacious because like all deep-lying fears it is covered up and disguised by all kinds of rationalizations.
John Dewey: “The fear is the more efficacious because like all deep-lying fears it is covered up and disguised by all kinds of…”
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Dewey explains how deep-seated fears are often masked by rationalizations.
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But in this respect he does not differ from those explicitly designated public officials who have also been known to betray the interest committed to them instead of faithfully representing it.
Nor can the liberating and confirming results of public action be construed to yield a wholesale idealization of states in contrast with other associations.
But he does so only at the cost of repression of those of his potentialities which can be realized only through membership in other groups.
The easiest way out was to go back to the naked individual, to sweep away all associations as foreign to his nature and rights save as they proceeded from his own voluntary choice, and guaranteed his own private ends.