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Whatever obstructs and restricts publicity, limits and distorts public opinion and checks and distorts thinking on social affairs.
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John Dewey
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gutenberg.orgWhatever obstructs and restricts publicity, limits and distorts public opinion and checks and distorts thinking on social affairs.
Dewey warns that restrictions on publicity can distort public opinion and hinder social thought.
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Systematic and continuous inquiry into all the conditions which affect association and their dissemination in print is a precondition of the creation of a true public.
We lie, as Emerson said, in the lap of an immense intelligence.
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.
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