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Episode #130 ... Dewey and Lippman on Democracy

Philosophize This!

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The Pseudo Environment

Public opinion is nothing more than the crystallized version of everyone's collective pseudo takes on the world based on stereotypes. To construct one of these pseudo environments, what we have to do is take a look around us and create a collection of stereotypes about people or cultures. When you combine these pseudo environments and stereotypes of each and every member of a particular democracy, they crystallize into what we call public opinion.

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