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The invasion of the community by the new and relatively impersonal and mechanical modes of combined human behavior is the outstanding fact of modern life.
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John Dewey
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Dewey highlights the significant impact of impersonal and mechanical modes of behavior on communities.
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The relationships of husband and wife, parent and children, older and younger children, friend and friend, are the bonds from which authority proceeds.
Personal loyalties to elders take the place of political obedience.
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.
The democratic public is still largely inchoate and unorganized.