"It is not the rise of the irrational as such...that must give pause to those who would use #intelligence as a director of instinct & passion. It is the deliberate cultivation of the irrational. For the cult is not spontaneous & natural; it is intentional & purposeful."
John #Dewey, 1918... two days before Armistice, to be precise.
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"Whose interests are concerned in the careful and systematic working up of the irrational? Who is taking advantage of a natural and wholesome stir of feeling to intensify it abnormally till men see only red, and to deflect it till rational criticism of what is politically and economically obnoxious can be represented as lack of patriotic interest in the war?"
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"Whose interests are concerned in the careful and systematic working up of the irrational? Who is taking advantage of a natural and wholesome stir of feeling to
intensify it abnormally till men see only red, and to deflect it till rational criticism of what is politically and economically obnoxious can be represented as lack of patriotic interest in the war?"
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