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Otherwise they would have to ally themselves with the masses, and that implies, once more, a share in government by the latter.
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John Dewey
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Dewey argues that intellectuals must align with the masses to ensure shared governance.
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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.
Ideas which are not communicated, shared, and reborn in expression are but soliloquy, and soliloquy is but broken and imperfect thought.
That and that only gives reality to public opinion.