John Dewey: “And without abiding attachments associations are too shifting and…”

On the record

And without abiding attachments associations are too shifting and shaken to permit a public readily to locate and identify itself.

Said by

John Dewey

Source

Dewey argues that without stable attachments, public identity becomes elusive.

More from John Dewey

Is the public much more than what a cynical diplomat once called Italy: a geographical expression?

What is significant is that access to means of amusement has been rendered easy and cheap beyond anything known in the past.

Extensive, enduring, intricate and serious indirect consequences of the conjoint activity of a comparatively few persons traverse the globe.

They persist as emotional cries rather than as reasoned ideas.

John Dewey: “And without abiding attachments associations are too shifting and shaken to permit a public readily to locate and…”